Funny Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

— Seneca the Younger

Find a path or make one.

— Seneca the Younger

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

— Seneca the Younger

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

— Seneca the Younger

Mercy often inflicts death.

— Seneca the Younger

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

— Seneca the Younger

Truth never perishes.

— Seneca the Younger

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

— Seneca the Younger

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

— Seneca the Younger

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

— Seneca the Younger

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

— Seneca the Younger

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

— Seneca the Younger

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

— Seneca the Younger

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

— Seneca the Younger

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

— Seneca the Younger

There is no power greater than true affection.

— Seneca the Younger

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

— Seneca the Younger

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

— Seneca the Younger

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

— Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

— Seneca the Younger