Poverty needs much, avarice everything. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. Seneca the Younger simplicity inspirational people What were once vices are the fashion of the day. Seneca the Younger fashion vices Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. Seneca the Younger birthday happiness believe Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. Seneca the Younger tolerance remember men Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee! Seneca the Younger pain girl art So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. Seneca the Younger god men life We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. Seneca the Younger truth god want He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! Seneca the Younger kings fear desire Nobody becomes guilty by fate. Seneca the Younger guilty fate guilt God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. Seneca the Younger given humans race There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. Seneca the Younger denial self hero What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. Seneca the Younger demand doe men A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not. Seneca the Younger kings heart moving Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed. Seneca the Younger conquer ill kindness The language of truth is unvarnished enough. Seneca the Younger truth-is language enough Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's. Seneca the Younger good-life soul long We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. Seneca the Younger looking-forward life-and-death past You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive. Seneca the Younger live-life life-and-death alive Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws. Seneca the Younger fixed certain law Life without literary studies is death. Seneca the Younger study literature
