Seneca the Younger Quotes

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Cut off their heads! Burn their houses down!

Extremism destroyed those before you.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.