Quotes from Seneca

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

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

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Injustice never rules forever.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

What once were vices are now manners.

They laboriously do nothing.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Man is a social animal.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Speech is the index of the mind.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Love of bustle is not industry.