539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.