34 Quotes By Seneca


No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Seneca on life

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca on life

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Seneca on life

If you wished to be loved, love.
Seneca on love

He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca on power

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
Seneca on prayer

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Seneca on religion

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Seneca on religion

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca on success

Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca on time

Time discovers truth.
Seneca on time

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Seneca on travel

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Seneca on want

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca on weakness