Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Senecawas a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
money
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
adversity behold brave conflict contest man matched worthy
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity
power sit supreme
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
building carried drudgery equally form inventing inventions lessons lies lowest men object office pace parts perfection philosophy rapid teach time warmth windows writer
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.
beasts felicity happier human sensuality
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
according dictates nature notions
If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
confess laid people waking
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
service
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
cast raised
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
crime-and-criminals
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.