342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.