Seneca the Younger Quotes About Evil

• The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Evil, Worst

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Loss, Evil

• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Evil, Dying

• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Evil, Fields

• It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Evil, Quality

• The sun shines even on the wicked.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Shining, Wicked

  "De Beneficiis", III. 25, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 235-36, 1922.

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

• It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Evil, Company

• Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Evil, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Wickedness, Way

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CXV), 1st century AD.

• There is no evil without its compensation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Compensation

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Locality

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Past, Evil

• A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, Moving, Heart

• If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Companion, Propensity

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (Letter CIV), circa 65 AD.

• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Evil, Endeavour

• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

• There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Vices, Doe

• No evil is without its compensation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Compensation

• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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