Seneca the Younger Quotes

the evil thing is inside, not out.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.