539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur.

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.