539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Speech is the index of the mind.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.