539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.