Seneca Quotes

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Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has
never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

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All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time
should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain
prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the
prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For
everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it
rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish
brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely
short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must
work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with
anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of
time that will never more return.

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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms, you’ll be able to use them
better when you’re older.

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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

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The best ideas are common property.

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We are members of one great body, planted by nature

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At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases . The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts

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No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.

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The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring
to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though
entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of
so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through
long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be
amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many
discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will
have been effaced.

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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

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One hand washes the other.

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To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your
frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you
take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant
supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or
thing is perhaps your last.

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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

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He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from
imagination than from reality.

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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.

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No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.

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Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.

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It is more civilized to make fun of life than to take it seriously.

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Only time can heal what reason cannot.

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To make mistakes is human but to persist in the mistake is diabolical

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You should

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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

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He who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

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Life is long, if you know how to use it.

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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it
merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that
moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

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Beyond all things is the sea.

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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor,
if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.

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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mistake the means for the thing itself and while they fancy themselves in pursuit of it they are flying from it for when the sum of happiness consists in solid tranquillity and an unembarrassed confidence therein they are ever collecting causes of disquiet and not only carry burthens but drag them painfully along through the rugged and deceitful path of life so that they still withdraw themselves from the good effect proposed the more pains they take the more business they have upon their hands instead of advancing they are retrograde and as it happens in a labyrinth their very speed puzzles and confounds them

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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. …
The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill
provided but use what we have wastefully.

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People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.

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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.