Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, (5 BC – 65 AD) was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. [Українська] [Русский]
Seneca Quotes
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
—Seneca
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
—Seneca
A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
—Seneca
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
—Seneca
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
—Seneca
Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
—Seneca
The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
—Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
—Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality
—Seneca
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
—Seneca
He who is brave is free.
—Seneca
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
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The best ideas are common property.
—Seneca
The sun also shines on the wicked.
—Seneca
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
—Seneca
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
—Seneca
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
—Seneca
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
—Seneca
We learn not in the school, but in life.
—Seneca
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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?
—Seneca
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
—Seneca
Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
—Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
—Seneca
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
—Seneca
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
—Seneca