Quotes from Seneca the Elder

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)

If you want to be loved, love.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.