Top 100 The Seneca Quotes
#1. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#2. It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Seneca The Younger
#8. How long will this last?' This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power, and they were not so much delighted by the greatness of their fortune as terrified by the thought of its inevitable end.
Seneca.
#9. As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
Seneca The Younger
#11. Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.
Joe Seneca
#12. When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.
Seneca.
#13. The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity
Seneca.
#16. We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.
Seneca.
#17. On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Seneca The Younger
#18. There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#19. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Seneca The Younger
#20. Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca The Younger
#22. May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#23. Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Seneca The Younger
#24. Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
Seneca The Younger
#25. He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Seneca The Younger
#27. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca The Younger
#28. We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
Seneca The Younger
#30. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.
Seneca.
#31. I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
Seneca The Younger
#33. The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#35. Providence which could be spoken of, almost according to choice or context, under a variety of names or descriptions including the divine reason, creative reason, nature,
Seneca.
#36. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What
Herman Melville
#37. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca The Younger
#38. And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body.
Seneca.
#40. You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
Seneca The Younger
#41. It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca The Younger
#42. It is a small part of life we really live.' Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.
Seneca.
#43. For some persons the remedy should be merely prescribed; in the case of others, it should be forced down their throats.
Seneca.
#44. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Anonymous
#45. So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.
Seneca.
#51. It is by far the best plan, therefore, to mingle leisure with business, whenever chance impediments or the state of public affairs forbid one's leading an active life: for one is never so cut off from all pursuits as to find no room left for honorable action.
Seneca.
#52. Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Seneca The Younger
#53. So the man who restrains himself within the bounds set by nature will not notice poverty; the man who exceeds these bounds will be pursued by poverty however rich he
Seneca.
#55. The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
Seneca The Younger
#57. If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.
Seneca.
#59. Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca The Younger
#60. There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca The Younger
#61. What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. Suppose
Seneca.
#62. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#63. No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
Seneca The Younger
#64. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca.
#65. The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply.
Seneca.
#66. Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
Seneca The Younger
#68. The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.
Seneca.
#69. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.
Seneca.
#70. The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#71. A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
Seneca The Younger
#74. Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Seneca The Younger
#75. How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
Seneca The Younger
#76. the wise man regards the reason for all his actions, but not the results.
Seneca.
#83. If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
Seneca The Younger
#85. Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another;
Seneca.
#86. The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Seneca The Younger
#87. From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.
Seneca.
#88. You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life! People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
Seneca.
#89. Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move:
Seneca.
#92. We learn not in the school, but in life.
Seneca.
#93. How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns.
Seneca.
#94. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Seneca The Younger
#96. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Seneca The Younger
#97. Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
Seneca The Younger
#99. We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#100. It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Seneca The Younger
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
