Quotes by Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

We should every night ball ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
('Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.)

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
(Epistles)