Quotes from Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

Whatever begins, also ends.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor