Seneca the Younger Quotes About Lying

• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, People, Laughing

• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

• No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

  Seneca the Younger

  Being Happy, Integrity, Lying

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

• The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Lying, Political

• The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Sorry, Memories

• Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brother, Lying, Light

• All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Cradle, Graves

• A thousand approaches lie open to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Thousand, Approach

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Laughing, Return

• On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Doe, Well Known

  'Thyestes' sc. 2, chorus (translation by Miller)

• The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Guilt, Prison

  "Troades". DCCCLXX,

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