539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.