My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. Seneca the Younger calumny-isinsultedinsult The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. Seneca the Younger freedomwisdomwise This life is only a prelude to eternity. Seneca the Younger preludeeternitylife That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity. Seneca the Younger eternityendsfear He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination. Seneca the Younger doewantdeath Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. Seneca the Younger environmentalnatureignorance When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity? Seneca the Younger skytreescience Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. Seneca the Younger life-and-deathdoorsmen 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. Seneca the Younger homecharacterpeace Small sorrows speak great ones are silent. Seneca the Younger sorrowspeaklove Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. Seneca the Younger successlifeson Whatever is well said by another, is mine. Seneca the Younger well-saidimitationwells A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them. Seneca the Younger single-lifeflyingsky Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate. Seneca the Younger agesorrydiscovery Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. Seneca the Younger inspirationallifedeath What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. Seneca the Younger joymendeath If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Seneca the Younger soulhappinessmen The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. Seneca the Younger gratitudemindhappiness In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. Seneca the Younger timephilosophylying To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. Seneca the Younger simplicityinspirationalpeople
