Seneca the Younger Quotes About Greatness

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Temptation

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

• 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

• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Greatness, Men

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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

• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Heart, Greatness

• There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Greatness, Mind

• Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Pieces

• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Mean, Son

• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Resolution

• Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Familiarity

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