Quotes by Seneca with evil

Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Lived from: 5 - 65

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

  • The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
  • There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
  • I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
  • Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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  • It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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  • No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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  • No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
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  • Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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