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
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do.
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While we wait for life, life passes.
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We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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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.
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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.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
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It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
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It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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