Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.