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Seneca the younger quotes. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholic. Enjoy the top 847 famous quotes sayings and quotations by Seneca The Younger. Seneca was born in Cordoba in Hispania and raised in Rome where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy.

Seneca The Younger. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have. Seneca the Younger Epistulae morales ad Lucilium no.

Quotes about Seneca Seneca would have denounced the opinion to which most philosophers tacitly or otherwise have come round in the last half-century that it is no part of the business of philosophy to turn people into better persons as tantamount to desertion or lèse-majesté. Its a vice to trust all and equally a vice to trust none. Seneca the Younger Quotes.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire Seneca Seneca. It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Seneca the Younger Wisdom Wise Men A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est. Seneca the Younger Quotes Teaching by precept is a long road but short and beneficial is the way by example.

If a man knows not to which port he sails no wind is favorable. Sourced quotations by the Roman Philosopher Seneca the Younger 4 BC 65 AD about man life and live. Death either destroys or unhusks us.