342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.

It even helps stupid people to try hard.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

A cruel reign is disordered and hidden in darkness, and while all shake with terror at the sudden explosions, not even he who caused all this disturbance escapes unharmed.

That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Someone who denies that he received a benefit that he in fact did receive is ungrateful.

But the forgetful person can never become grateful, the benefit received is totally lost to him.