539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.