Seneca Quotes

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

“How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”

“He is most powerful who has power over himself.”

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

“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“It’s a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“He who is brave is free.”

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

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

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

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

“He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”

“It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times.”

“It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence. In days of peace the soldier performs manoeuvres, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil. If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.”

“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

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

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

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