Seneca. Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Seneca.
Seneca. Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy?
Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.
So it is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil.
Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.
In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
A hungry people neither listens to reason nor is mollified by fair treatment or swayed by any appeals.
What mental darkness, what ignorance of the truth blinds those who, though afflicted by the fear of poverty, yet take pleasure in imitating it!
Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.
Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.
When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.
For it is disheartening to inspire in a man the desire, and to take away from him the hope, of emulation.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.
Democritus[3] says: "One man means as much to me as a multitude, and a multitude only as much as one man." 11.
Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.
A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.
For to be afflicted with endless sorrow at the loss of someone very dear is foolish self-indulgence, and to feel none is inhuman callousness.
The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.
Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Those who choose to have no real purpose in life are ever rootless and dissatisfied, tossed by their aimlessness into ever-changing situations.
What is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it
We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Plague on it! what madness this is, to punish one's self because one is unfortunate, and not to lessen, but to increase one's ills!
Fortune recently took away her mother, but your love will mean that she will only grieve over her mother's loss but not suffer for it.
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.