539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.