Having good health is very different from only being not sick.
Seneca the Younger
1803-1882. American philosopher and poet.
1. "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."
Categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Power and Weakness
2. "Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
source: "Essays, Second Series"
Categories: Richness and Money
3. "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
source: "Journals"
Categories: Patriotism -:- Good and Evil
4. "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered."
Categories: Nature and Animals
5. "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
6. "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
Categories: Trust
7. "To be great is to be misunderstood."
source: "Essays, First Series"
Categories: Success and Fame -:- Various
8. "There are two classes of poets: the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
Categories: Art and Culture
9. "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
source: "Lectures and Biographical Sketches"
Categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
10. "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
Categories: Nature and Animals
11. "The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
source: "Letters and Social Aims"
Categories: Reality and Imagination
12. "Some play at chess, some at cards, some at the Stock Exchange. I prefer to play at Cause and Effect."
source: "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Categories: Various
13. "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
source: "Conduct of Life"
Categories: Power and Weakness
14. "Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock."
Categories: Art and Culture
15. "Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough."
Categories: Human
16. "Men are what their mothers made them."
source: "The Conduct of Life"
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Woman and Man
17. "Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition."
Categories: Art and Culture
18. "Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."
source: "Essays, Second Series"
Categories: Life and Death -:- Reality and Imagination
19. "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
source: "Essays: First Series"
Categories: God and Religion
20. "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
source: "Essays, First Series"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility
21. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius
22. "Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."
Categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Talent and Genius
23. "Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."
source: "Essays"
Categories: Destiny and Fate
24. "Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."
Categories: Various
25. "Art is a jealous mistress."
source: "The Conduct of Life"
Categories: Art and Culture
26. "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
Categories: God and Religion
27. "All diseases run into one: old age."
Categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age
28. "Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."
source: "Letters and Social Aims"
Categories: Health and Alcohol
29. "A man’s fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man’s friends are his magnetisms."
source: "The Conduct of Life"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Human
30. "A man is made by the books he reads."
Categories: Education
31. "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite."
source: "Journals"
Categories: Human
32. "A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
source: "Society and Solitude"
Categories: Work and Laziness
33. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
Categories: Bravery and Fear
34. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
source: "Essays: First Series"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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