Seneca Quotes

"Old age is an incurable disease"

"Without an adversary, prowess shrivels."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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"

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

"A man who has taken your time recognizes no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay"

"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient"

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"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"

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

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

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

"He who is brave is free."

"To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none"

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