Quotes by Seneca

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
(Epistles)

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
(Epistles)

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
(Epistles)

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
(Epistles)

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
(Epistles)

The best ideas are common property.
(Epistles)

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
(Epistles)

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
(Epistles)

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
9Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.)

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
( Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.)