342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!