Quote

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Thing
Much
Think
Thinking
Dishonorable
Deceit
Write
Another
Writing

More quotes by Seneca the Younger

Image
Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca the Younger
Image
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Seneca the Younger
Image
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Unjust rule does not last forever.
Seneca the Younger
Image
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
Seneca the Younger
Image
A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Seneca the Younger
Image
No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
Seneca the Younger
Image
True love hates and will not bear delay.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Indolence is stagnation employment is life.
Seneca the Younger
Image
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Seneca the Younger
Image
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
Seneca the Younger
Image
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Seneca the Younger