Seneca: Quotes & Facts

This book is an anthology of quotes from Seneca and selected facts about Seneca. “A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.” “All cruelty springs from weakness.” “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.” “Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness” “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” “Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.” “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” “Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.” “Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.” “He who is brave is free” “He will live ill who does not know how to die well” “I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” “Injustice never rules forever” “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” “Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”