Quotes from Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.