World Quotes by Seneca the Younger

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

— Seneca the Younger

As the world leads we follow.

— Seneca the Younger

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

— Seneca the Younger

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

— Seneca the Younger

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

— Seneca the Younger

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

— Seneca the Younger

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

— Seneca the Younger

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

— Seneca the Younger

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

— Seneca the Younger

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

— Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes…

— Seneca the Younger

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

— Seneca the Younger

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things…

— Seneca the Younger

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having…

— Seneca the Younger

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours…

— Seneca the Younger

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that…

— Seneca the Younger

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to…

— Seneca the Younger

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He…

— Seneca the Younger

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one…

— Seneca the Younger

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is…

— Seneca the Younger

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere…

— Seneca the Younger

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…

— Seneca the Younger