Thyestes Quotes

“You all, who are greedy for the heights, do not know where royal power lies. Resources do not make a king; nor do clothes of Tyrian color, nor the mark of a royal brow, nor vessels shining with gold: a king is he who has laid down the fears and dreadful evils of his heart;”
― Seneca, Thyestes

“Awake, my heart,
And do such deeds as in the time to come
No tongue shall praise, but none refuse to tell.”
― Seneca, Thyestes

“me dulcis saturet quies;
obscuro positus loco
leni perfruar otio,
nullis nota Quiritibus
aetas per tacitum fluat.
sic cum transierint mei
nullo cum strepitu dies.
plebeius moriar senex.
illi mors gravis incubat
qui, notus nimis omnibus,
ignotus moritur sibi.”
― Seneca, Thyestes