539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting carefree happiness.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

The belly will not listen to advice.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.