539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.