Seneca Quotes

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

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

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

"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"

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

"Old age is an incurable disease"

"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"

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

"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 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."

"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"

"While we teach, we learn."

"The whole world is my native land"

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

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

"He who is brave is free."

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