Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.”

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402. “He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.”

— Seneca the Younger

403. “That comes too late that comes for the asking.”

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404. “Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.”

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

406. “It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”

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407. “Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.”

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408. “What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.”

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409. “Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.”

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410. “I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.”

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411. “Life without the courage to die is slavery.”

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412. “Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent.”

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413. “The sun shines even on the wicked.”

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414. “A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.”

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415. “Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.”

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416. “I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.”

— Seneca the Younger

417. “What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”

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418. “To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.”

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419. “How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.”

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420. “Revenge is an inhuman word.”

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421. “Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.”

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422. “Everything in art is but a copy of nature.”

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423. “Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.”

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424. “No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.”

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425. “Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.”

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426. “A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.”

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427. “It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.”

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428. “The voice is nothing but beaten air.”

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429. “Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.”

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430. “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.”

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431. “A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.”

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432. “No one is laughable who laughs at himself.”

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433. “The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.”

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434. “Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.”

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435. “Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.”

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436. “Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.”

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437. “There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.”

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438. “He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.”

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439. “I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man’s portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.”

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440. “But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.”

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441. “Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.”

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442. “Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.”

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443. “What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?”

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444. “Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.”

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445. “It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.”

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446. “As many servants so many enemies.”

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447. “My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.”

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448. “Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.”

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449. “Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.”

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450. “Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.”

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