Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65The quotations of
Seneca the Younger
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
5 BC–AD 65
25 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Morality and Money.
- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXV: On the first cause, Line 3.
- Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 251-253; (Amphitryon)
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death, Line 4.- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVII: Some arguments in favor of the simple life, Line 30It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.- De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XII: On old age, Line 11.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 107, 9
- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, Line 18.
Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave, Line 11The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, Line 4.Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter X: On living to oneself, Line 5.
