Quotes from Seneca
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
- Seneca
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
- Seneca
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
- Seneca
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
- Seneca
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
- Seneca
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.
- Seneca
He who is brave is free.
- Seneca
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
- Seneca
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
- Seneca
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
- 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
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
- Seneca