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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Roman philosopher and moralist (4 BC - 65 AD)  << Prev Page    Displaying page 17 of 22    Next Page >>  A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.   [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]       - Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4) [Enjoyment] Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.   [Lat., Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium [Friendship] It is not goodness to be better than the very worst.   [Lat., Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium [Goodness] Men's conversation is like their life.   [Lat., Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (114) [Speech] Among other evils folly has also this, that it is always beginning to live.   [Lat., Inter caetera mala hoc quoque habet     Stultitia semper incipit vivere.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (13) [Folly] Dignity increases more easily than it begins.   [Lat., Facilius crescit dignitas quam incipit.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CI) [Dignity] Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.   [Lat., Propra vivere et singulos dies singulas vitas puta.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CI) [Life] No age is shut against great genius.   [Lat., Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CII) [Genius] This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity.   [Lat., Dies iste, quem tamquam extremum reformidas, aeterni natilis est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CII) [Death] If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.   [Lat., Si velis vitiis exui, longe a vitiorum exemplis recedendum est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CIV) [Evil] The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.   [Lat., Fata volemtem ducunt, nolentem trahunt.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVII) [Fate] Old age is an incurable disease.   [Lat., Senectus insanabilis morbus est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVIII, 29) [Age] Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.   [Lat., Natura semina scientiae nobis dedit, scientiam non dedit.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CXX) [Knowledge] This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.   [Lat., Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CXX) [Life] Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.   [Lat., Sera parsimonia in fundo est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (I) [Economy] He who is everywhere is nowhere.   [Lat., Nusquam est, qui ubique est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II) [Traveling] Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.   [Lat., Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II) [Poverty] A multitude of books distracts the mind.   [Lat., Distrahit animum librorum multitudo.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II, 3) [Books] If you wish to be loved, love.   [Lat., Si vis amari, ama.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (IX) [Love] Fortune cannot take away what she did not give.   [Lat., Quid non dedit fortuna non eripit.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LIX) [Fortune] Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.   [Lat., Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute (curo) ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXI) [Life] To live is not a blessing, but to live well.   [Lat., Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXX) [Life] Let that please man which has pleased God.   [Lat., Placeat homini quidquid deo placuit.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXIV)         [Resignation] No man was ever wise by chance.   [Lat., Nulli sapere casu obtigit.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXVI) [Wisdom] Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.   [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]       - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXXIII)         [Intemperance : Proverbs] Displaying page 17 of 22 for this author:   << Prev  Next >>  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18 19 20 21 22 The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 10 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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