A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

— Seneca

A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

— Seneca

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach.

— Seneca

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

— Seneca

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return.

— Seneca

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

— Seneca

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

— Seneca