What once where vices are now manners.

— Seneca

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

— Seneca

When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.

— Seneca

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

— Seneca

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

— Seneca

Whom they have injured they also hate.

— Seneca

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

— Seneca

You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.

— Seneca

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.

— Seneca

You shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings Hecate; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.

— Seneca