If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure. Seneca the Younger calendars given time All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Seneca the Younger weeping laughter causes The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. Seneca the Younger mind inspirational peace It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. Seneca the Younger proof causes Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca the Younger exposure philosophical danger My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. Seneca the Younger teaching education inspirational The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them. Seneca the Younger drag guides destiny It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more. Seneca the Younger luxury done example Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. Seneca the Younger bears sweet memories We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? Seneca the Younger mad justice war Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. Seneca the Younger courage fear heaven There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. Seneca the Younger wisdom wise attitude These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us. Seneca the Younger fever money motivational What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. Seneca the Younger revenge wise blow No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron. Seneca the Younger credit favors men Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it. Seneca the Younger please-me real matter Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. Seneca the Younger goes-on love There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. Seneca the Younger appearance people world Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. Seneca the Younger alive literature death An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will. Seneca the Younger disposition mind action
