Seneca the Younger Quotes About Loss

• 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 greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

• Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Men, Sick

• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Taken, Mean

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Justice, Honor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Agamemnon, CXII, 1922.

• That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Negligence

• 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

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