Seneca the Younger Quotes About Humanity

• All cruelty springs from weakness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spring, Philosophical, Animal

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Humanity

• It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Justice, Humanity

• Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Humanity, Unhappy

• He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Humanity, Generations

• What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Humanity, Raises

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