Seneca the Younger

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Seneca the Younger

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Seneca the Younger

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Seneca the Younger

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Seneca the Younger

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

Seneca the Younger

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Seneca the Younger

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Seneca the Younger

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Seneca the Younger

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca the Younger