539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Learn how to feel joy.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.