539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune’s greatest favours.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.