Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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
Objects
School
Men
Contemptible
Object
Ridiculous
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
Seneca the Younger
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
Seneca the Younger
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
Seneca the Younger
Light troubles speak the weighty are struck dumb.
Seneca the Younger
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Seneca the Younger
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Seneca the Younger
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca the Younger
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Seneca the Younger
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Seneca the Younger
I would rather be sick than idle.
Seneca the Younger
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca the Younger
Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Seneca the Younger
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Seneca the Younger
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca the Younger
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
Seneca the Younger
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Seneca the Younger
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Seneca the Younger
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Seneca the Younger
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
Seneca the Younger
