Seneca Archives - World Quotations

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

For greed all nature is too little.

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

What once were vices are manners now.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.