539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.