Seneca the Younger Quotes About Security

• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Greatness, Men

• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

  Seneca the Younger

  States, Dues, Security

• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sea, Land, Hug

• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Time, Men

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