Seneca the Younger Quotes About House

• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Anger, Suicidal

• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, House, Atheism

• He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

  Seneca the Younger

  Disappointment, Years, Office

• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Gentleman

• The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, House, Tempest

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