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Quotes from Seneca the Younger

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
~ Seneca the Younger
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
~ Seneca the Younger
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
~ Seneca the Younger
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
~ Seneca the Younger
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
~ Seneca the Younger
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
~ Seneca the Younger
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
~ Seneca the Younger
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
~ Seneca the Younger
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
~ Seneca the Younger
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
~ Seneca the Younger
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
~ Seneca the Younger
Golden roofs break men's rest.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
~ Seneca the Younger
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
~ Seneca the Younger
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
~ Seneca the Younger
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
~ Seneca the Younger
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
~ Seneca the Younger
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
~ Seneca the Younger