Seneca the Younger Quotes About Mankind

• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

• A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reality, Sin, Mankind

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

• The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

• It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Should, Fortune, Mankind

• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Insanity, Driven

• 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 origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Noble

• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friends, True Friend, Delight

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