Seneca
Seneca
charm conversation insidious love secrets
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
expectation running serve
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
bear hard memory sweet
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
cute-love love sweet-love true whom
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
fools-and-foolishness hatred inflicted
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
affairs fate rules
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
along fate leads
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
authority founded injustice
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
bent cares hungry justice listens nor people prayers
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers
age-and-aging among declining embrace extreme gradually love maintain pleasure reached sweetest
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
appearance general greater people whom
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
adversity struck troubles
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
bad
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
youth
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.