Quotes By Seneca - Page 2

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

""Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.""

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."

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

"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."

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

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

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"He who is brave is free."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"Only time can heal what reason cannot."

"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."

"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear."

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."

"The sun also shines on the wicked."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich."

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"We learn not in the school, but in life."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

"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."