Seneca The Elder Quotes
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
