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
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.
—Seneca
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
—Seneca
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
—Seneca
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
—Seneca
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
—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
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
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Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.
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Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman.
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Beyond all things is the sea.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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What fortune has made yours is not your own.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.
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People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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