Seneca Quotes

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

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.