Seneca the Younger

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Seneca the Younger

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 the Younger

To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

Seneca the Younger

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Seneca the Younger

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Seneca the Younger

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Seneca the Younger

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca the Younger

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Seneca the Younger

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Seneca the Younger

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Seneca the Younger