539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.