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Seneca Quotes

«I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.»
«He has committed the crime who profits by it.»
Author: Seneca
«He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.»
«I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: searcher, signify
«Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?»
Author: Seneca
«A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: inflicted
«A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: lighter
«To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: odium
«Every reign must submit to a greater reign.»
Author: Seneca
«The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.»
Author: Seneca | About: Mind | Keywords: unlearns

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