Seneca Quotes

"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy"

"The whole world is my native land"

"Luck never made a man wise."

"While we teach, we learn."

"He is most powerful who has power over himself"

"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly"

"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."

"What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing"

"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."

"Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured"

"The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company"

"Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride"

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh"

"We learn not in the school, but in life"

"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

"He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct"

"Without an adversary, prowess shrivels."

"Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity"

"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."