Roman Senator Seneca Quotes

A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now. ~ Seneca

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. ~ Roman Payne

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on. ~ Joan D. Chittister

Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly. ~ Seneca.

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

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. ~ Seneca.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ~ Roman Payne

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ~ Senator Boies Penrose

Beyond all things is the sea ~ Seneca.

Ignorance is no cure for suffering. ~ Seneca.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. ~ Seneca.

Kingdoms which act unjustly never last. ~ Seneca.

Only time can heal what reason cannot. ~ Seneca.

The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply. ~ Seneca.

Love of bustle is not industry. ~ Seneca.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness ~ Seneca.

Time flies on fickle wings ~ Seneca.

No man was ever wise by chance ~ Seneca.

All vices are at odds with nature. ~ Seneca

Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. ~ Seneca.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~ Seneca.

Restless people often pretend to be calm. ~ Seneca.

For manliness gains much strength by being challenged ~ Seneca.

I don't want to be a senator. ~ Deval Patrick

Who scorns his own life is lord of yours. ~ Seneca.

There is no great genius without tincture of madness. ~ Seneca.

Vices have to be crushed rather than picked at. ~ Seneca.

There is no genius without a touch of madness. ~ Seneca

No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself. ~ Seneca.

Men learn as they teach. ~ Seneca

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ~ Roman Payne

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth. ~ Roman Payne

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat) ~ Seneca.

Kings hate to hear the things they order spoken. ~ Seneca.

There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. ~ Seneca.

Truth often harms the one who digs it up. ~ Seneca.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art. ~ Seneca.

To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go? ~ Seneca.

Is natural to touch more often the part that hurts. ~ Seneca.

No man has escaped paying the penalty for being born. ~ Seneca.

What fortune has made yours is not your own. ~ Seneca.

No time is too short for criminals to do wrong. ~ Seneca.

If you want to keep a secret, never share it. ~ Seneca.

Life is long, if only you knew how to use it. ~ Seneca.

Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment. ~ Seneca.

Injustice never rules forever ~ Seneca.

Ungoverned anger begets madness. ~ Seneca.

Hurry up and live. ~ Seneca.

We learn not in the school, but in life. ~ Seneca.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well ~ Seneca.

How late it is to begin living only when one must stop! ~ Seneca

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca) ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

All that remains of our existence is not actually life but merely time. ~ Seneca.

Greed is satisfied by nothing, but nature finds satisfaction even in scant measure. ~ Seneca.

Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered. ~ Seneca.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. ~ Seneca.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy. ~ Roman Payne

The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness. ~ Seneca.

Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind ~ Seneca.

Wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, ~ Seneca.

If an evil has been pondered beforehand, the blow is gentle when it comes. ~ Seneca.

Those who are busy with other things do not notice it until the end comes. ~ Seneca

There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring. ~ Seneca.

Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity. ~ Seneca.

There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn't know where to go ~ Seneca.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. ~ Seneca.

And there's no state of slavery more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed. ~ Seneca.

In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism! ~ Senator Mitchell

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. ~ Seneca.

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still. ~ Roman Payne

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets. ~ Roman Payne

The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia. ~ Seneca.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. ~ Seneca.

What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life. ~ Seneca.

Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it ~ Seneca.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.) ~ Seneca.

My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth - all woman! ~ Nat C. Goodwin

Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride. ~ Roman Payne

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with ~ Seneca.

Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions. ~ Seneca.

Once we have driven away all that excites or affrights us, there ensues unbroken tranquility and enduring freedom. ~ Seneca.

The preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over. ~ Seneca.

We do not need many words, but, rather, effective words. ~ Seneca.

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. ~ Roman Payne

It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks. ~ Seneca.

Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal. ~ Seneca.

He who is brave is free ~ Seneca.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ~ Seneca.

Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent. ~ Seneca.

The boon that could be given can be withdrawn. ~ Seneca.

Living is the least important activity of the preoccupied man; ~ Seneca.

I will storm the gods, and shake the universe. ~ Seneca.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. ~ Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ~ Seneca.

Ask nature: she will tell you that she made both day and night. ~ Seneca.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. ~ Seneca.

Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man. ~ Seneca.

Since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it. ~ Seneca.

The surest way for those who want to rule
is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet. ~ Seneca.