Seneca the Younger Quotes About Slaves

• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "On the Good Life". 26:1,

• Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Slavery, Human Trafficking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Men, Flesh

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XCII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Mean, Lists

• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Freedom, Political

• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dirty, Men, People

• 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

• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Done, Care

• How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

  Seneca the Younger

  Numbers, Would Be, Slavery

• The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slave, Masters, Tyranny

• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Gentleman

• The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave

• Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Nephew, Slave

• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Long

• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, Heaven, Mind

• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Home, Men

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