539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.