539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Happy he whoe’er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Truth never perishes.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.