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
human kindness opportunity wherever
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
discipline evil heart human powerful propensity subdued
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
human opportunity
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
evil heart human powerful propensity subdued
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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.
bear hard memory sweet
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
charm charming conversation insidious love secrets
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
charm conversation insidious love secrets
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
expectation running serve
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
affairs fate rules
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
along fate leads
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
behind self-knowledge sins
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
body disease
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
cute-love love sweet-love true whom
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.