36 Quotes About Seneca

Seneca had made the bargain that many good men have made when agreeing to aid bad regimes. On the one hand, their presence strengthens the regime and helps it endure. But their moral influence may also improve the regime's behavior or save the lives of its enemies. For many, this has been a bargain worth making, even if it has cost them—as it may have cost Seneca—their immortal soul.

El mayor impedimento al vivir es la espera, que, por estar pendiente al día de mañana, pierde el día de hoy.

What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes " "Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail""Admira, incluso si caen, a quienes emprenden grandes iniciativas

I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you want to be loved, love.

Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...

In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god.

We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful