Kings Quotes by Seneca the Elder

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

— Seneca the Elder

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

— Seneca the Elder

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

— Seneca the Elder

“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.”

— Seneca the Elder

“To be everywhere; is to nowhere.”

— Seneca the Elder

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

— Seneca the Elder

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

— Seneca the Elder

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

— Seneca the Elder

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

— Seneca the Elder

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

— Seneca the Elder

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

— Seneca the Elder

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

— Seneca the Elder