539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.