Quotes from Seneca
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
— Seneca
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Seneca
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
— Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
— Seneca
Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).
— Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
— Seneca
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.
— Seneca
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
— Seneca
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
— Seneca
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits
— Seneca
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
— Seneca
It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.
— Seneca