Seneca the Younger Quotes

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

As it was in the beginning, Is today official sinning, And shall be forever more.

… vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Vice is its own reward.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

Great success is a great temptation.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.