539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.