Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Seneca the Younger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
Good
Benefits
Events
Color
Turns
Whatever
Happens
Dyes
Persons
Benefit
Person
Adversity
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Seneca the Younger
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
Seneca the Younger
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
Seneca the Younger
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Seneca the Younger
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
Seneca the Younger
To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
Seneca the Younger
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Seneca the Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
Seneca the Younger
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
Seneca the Younger
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
Seneca the Younger
Do everything as in the eye of another.
Seneca the Younger
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Seneca the Younger
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Seneca the Younger
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
Seneca the Younger
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Seneca the Younger
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Seneca the Younger
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
Seneca the Younger
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca the Younger
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca the Younger
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
Seneca the Younger
