Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Seneca the Younger - Page 17
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
There is no evil without its compensation.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
If you wish to be loved, love.
Successful villany is called virtue.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
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