Top 35 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes


It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If you wish to be loved; Love!


Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.


One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.


We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

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

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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.

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

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