--- title: "4 Excess Quotes By Seneca the Younger" description: "4 Excess quotes by Seneca the Younger. Plus more from Seneca the Younger and more Excess sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/seneca-the-younger-219_borders_it-is-a-common-thing-to-screw-up-justice_1151814.jpg" --- > [It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-a-common-thing-to-screw-up-justice-to-the-pitch-of-an-injury-a/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/seneca-the-younger-219_borders_it-is-a-common-thing-to-screw-up-justice_1151814.jpg) > [Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-not-the-enjoyment-of-pleasures-now-within-your-grasp-be-carried/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a7/seneca-the-younger-219_enjoyment_let-not-the-enjoyment-of-pleasures-now-w_1235457.jpg) > [It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-only-luxury-and-avarice-that-make-poverty-grievous-to-us-for-it/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/seneca-the-younger-219_avarice_it-is-only-luxury-and-avarice-that-make_1579140.jpg) > [As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/as-fate-is-inexorable-and-not-to-be-moved-either-with-tears-or/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/seneca-the-younger-219_comedy_as-fate-is-inexorable-and-not-to-be-move_2280492.jpg) ## Other authors on Excess - [Aristotle 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-laozi-58536.jpg) Laozi 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/laozi/) - [Samuel Johnson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mason-cooley-65303.jpg) Mason Cooley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/mason-cooley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-horace-42297.jpg) Horace 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/horace/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-caleb-colton-22176.jpg) Charles Caleb Colton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/charles-caleb-colton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/blaise-pascal/) ## More by Seneca the Younger > [There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-is-nothing-that-we-can-properly-call-our-own-but-our-time-and/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [It is for the superfluous we sweat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-for-the-superfluous-we-sweat/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-trust-rather-to-their-eyes-than-to-their-ears-the-effect-of/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-great-step-towards-independence-is-a-good-humored-stomach-one-that/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-can-be-divided-into-2-groups-one-that-goes-ahead-and-achieves/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/leisure-without-study-is-death-and-the-grave-of-a-living-man/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/such-as-the-chain-of-causes-we-call-fate-such-is-the-chain-of-wishes/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [To rule yourself is the ultimate power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/to-rule-yourself-is-the-ultimate-power/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-road-by-precepts-is-tedious-by-example-short-and-efficacious/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/misfortune-is-the-test-of-a-person-s-merit/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-who-does-not-want-to-die-should-not-want-to-live-for-life-is/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-us-not-seek-our-disease-out-of-ourselves-tis-in-us-and-planted-in/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [After death there is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/after-death-there-is-nothing/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/adversity-finds-at-last-the-man-whom-she-has-often-passed-by/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/hesitation-is-the-best-cure-for-anger-the-first-blows-of-anger-are/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/seneca-the-younger/#itemlist", "name": "4 Excess Quotes By Seneca the Younger", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? 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