34 Quotes By Seneca


Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca on death

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
Seneca on friendship

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca on future

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

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Seneca on adversity

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca on adversity

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du
Seneca on adversity

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Seneca on age

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca on anger

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Seneca on conflict

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Seneca on destiny

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Seneca on fortune

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Seneca on giving

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Seneca on government

That grief is light which can take counsel.
Seneca on grief

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Seneca on grief

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Seneca on health

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Seneca on heart

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Seneca on intelligence

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca on intelligence