Seneca Quotes and Quotations
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
Whom they have injured, they also hate.
It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.
Injustice never rules forever.
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
There is nothing so bitter, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
Time discovered truth.
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Love of bustle is not industry.
Learn how to feel joy.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.
Men learn while they teach.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Man is a social animal.
What once were vices are now manners.
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
They laboriously do nothing.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.
Man is a social animal.
Speech is the index of the mind.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
The sun also shines on the wicked.