539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.