Seneca the Younger Quotes About Politics

• All cruelty springs from weakness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spring, Philosophical, Animal

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Men, Slavery

• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

  Seneca the Younger

  Successful, Law, Names

• No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Long, Politics

• Unjust rule does not last forever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Forever, Unjust, Politics

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