Quotes from Seneca the Younger

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The best ideas are common property.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power