539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Nero: "Am I forbidden to do what all may do?"Seneca: "From high rank high example is expected.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

He praised his own achievements, not without cause but without end.

There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.