Seneca the Elder > Quotes

“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.”
― Seneca the Elder

“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”
― Seneca the Elder

“To be everywhere; is to be nowhere”
― Seneca the Elder

“Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est"
(It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race)”
― Seneca the Elder

“to be everywhere is to be nowhere”
― Seneca the Elder

“To be everywhere, is to be no where at all”
― Seneca the Elder

“To be everywhere; is to be nowhere.”
― Seneca the Elder

“To be everywhere; is to nowhere.”
― Seneca the Elder