--- title: "31 May Quotes By Seneca the Younger" description: "31 May quotes by Seneca the Younger. Plus more from Seneca the Younger and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/seneca-the-younger-219_may_do-what-you-should-not-what-you-may-1416_1416779.jpg" --- > [Do what you should, not what you may.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/do-what-you-should-not-what-you-may/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/seneca-the-younger-219_may_do-what-you-should-not-what-you-may-1416_1416779.jpg) > [Forgive that you may be forgiven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/forgive-that-you-may-be-forgiven/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/seneca-the-younger-219_forgive_forgive-that-you-may-be-forgiven-3000397_3000397.jpg) > [Everything may happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/everything-may-happen/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ba/seneca-the-younger-219_art_everything-may-happen-1194896_1194896.jpg) > [Consider an enemy may become a friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/consider-an-enemy-may-become-a-friend/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/seneca-the-younger-219_consider_consider-an-enemy-may-become-a-friend-47_477367.jpg) > [He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-deserves-praise-who-does-not-what-he-may-but-what-he-ought/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/seneca-the-younger-219_deserve_he-deserves-praise-who-does-not-what-he_147984.jpg) > [He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-may-as-well-not-thank-at-all-who-thanks-when-none-are-by/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/seneca-the-younger-219_gratitude_he-may-as-well-not-thank-at-all-who-than_1640954.jpg) > [However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/however-wretched-a-fellow-mortal-may-be-he-is-still-a-member-of-our/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/seneca-the-younger-219_brotherhood_however-wretched-a-fellow-mortal-may-be_591028.jpg) > [The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-comfort-of-having-a-friend-may-be-taken-away-but-not-that-of/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d6/seneca-the-younger-219_best-friend_the-comfort-of-having-a-friend-may-be-ta_2193727.jpg) > [Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/fortune-may-rob-us-of-our-wealth-not-of-our-courage/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/seneca-the-younger-219_courage_fortune-may-rob-us-of-our-wealth-not-of_1219343.jpg) > [The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-declaration-of-love-may-come-sooner-than-expected-take-time/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/seneca-the-younger-219_declaration_the-declaration-of-love-may-come-sooner_1785156.jpg) > [Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-wickedness-escape-as-it-may-at-the-bar-it-never-fails-of-doing/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/seneca-the-younger-219_bars_let-wickedness-escape-as-it-may-at-the-b_1261611.jpg) > [I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/i-will-have-a-care-of-being-a-slave-to-myself-for-it-is-a-perpetual-a/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc6/seneca-the-younger-219_care_i-will-have-a-care-of-being-a-slave-to-m_405881.jpg) > [I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/i-have-withdrawn-not-only-from-men-but-from-affairs-especially-my-own/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/seneca-the-younger-219_affair_i-have-withdrawn-not-only-from-men-but-f_491095.jpg) > [What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/what-a-great-blessing-is-a-friend-with-a-heart-so-trusty-you-may/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/seneca-the-younger-219_blessing_what-a-great-blessing-is-a-friend-with-a_1853104.jpg) > [Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/not-a-soul-takes-thought-how-well-he-may-live-only-how-long-yet-a/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2f/seneca-the-younger-219_good-life_not-a-soul-takes-thought-how-well-he-may_3080461.jpg) > [The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-mind-should-be-allowed-some-relaxation-that-it-may-return-to-its/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/seneca-the-younger-219_may_the-mind-should-be-allowed-some-relaxati_3179680.jpg) > [It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-a-world-of-mischief-that-may-be-done-by-a-single-example-of/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/seneca-the-younger-219_avarice_it-is-a-world-of-mischief-that-may-be-do_3011156.jpg) > [A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-great-a-good-and-a-right-mind-is-a-kind-of-divinity-lodged-in-flesh/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/seneca-the-younger-219_blessing_a-great-a-good-and-a-right-mind-is-a-kin_2834616.jpg) > [Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/solitude-and-company-may-be-allowed-to-take-their-turns-the-one/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c5/seneca-the-younger-219_business_solitude-and-company-may-be-allowed-to-t_2604336.jpg) > [There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-are-many-things-akin-to-highest-deity-that-are-still-obscure/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/seneca-the-younger-219_access_there-are-many-things-akin-to-highest-de_558783.jpg) > [All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/all-i-desire-is-that-my-poverty-may-not-be-a-burden-to-myself-or-make/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c2/seneca-the-younger-219_burden_all-i-desire-is-that-my-poverty-may-not_304263.jpg) > [The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-sovereign-good-of-man-is-a-mind-that-subjects-all-things-to/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/seneca-the-younger-219_all-things_the-sovereign-good-of-man-is-a-mind-that_1862650.jpg) > [I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/i-can-see-clothes-of-silk-if-materials-that-do-not-hide-the-body-nor/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/320/seneca-the-younger-219_acquaintance_i-can-see-clothes-of-silk-if-materials-t_1012452.jpg) > [The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-greatest-chastisement-that-a-man-may-receive-who-hath-outraged/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/seneca-the-younger-219_chastisement_the-greatest-chastisement-that-a-man-may_3200794.jpg) > [The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-things-which-we-hold-in-our-hands-which-we-see-with-our-eyes-and/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/seneca-the-younger-219_avarice_the-things-which-we-hold-in-our-hands-wh_828986.jpg) > [We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/we-ought-not-to-confine-ourselves-either-to-writing-or-to-reading-the/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/seneca-the-younger-219_advice_we-ought-not-to-confine-ourselves-either_2943249.jpg) > [There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-is-nothing-that-nature-has-made-necessary-which-is-more-easy/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/seneca-the-younger-219_body_there-is-nothing-that-nature-has-made-ne_1103760.jpg) > [It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-man-s-duty-to-live-in-conformity-with-the-divine-will-and-this/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/seneca-the-younger-219_ambition_it-is-man-s-duty-to-live-in-conformity-w_1554754.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) > [Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/misfortunes-in-fine-cannot-be-avoided-but-they-may-be-sweetened-if/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73f/seneca-the-younger-219_avoided_misfortunes-in-fine-cannot-be-avoided-bu_1835789.jpg) > [As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/as-gratitude-is-a-necessary-and-a-glorious-virtue-so-also-it-is-an/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/seneca-the-younger-219_easy_as-gratitude-is-a-necessary-and-a-glorio_277301.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## 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/may/seneca-the-younger/#itemlist", "name": "31 May Quotes By Seneca the Younger", "numberOfItems": 31, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do what you should, not what you may.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seneca the Younger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/do-what-you-should-not-what-you-may/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/seneca-the-younger-219_may_do-what-you-should-not-what-you-may-1416_1416779.jpg", "contentUrl": 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