It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.