539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

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

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.