Seneca Quotes

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

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

"No one can wear a mask for very long."
-Seneca

"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."
-Seneca

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
-Seneca in Power quotes.

"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned."
-Seneca

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
-Seneca

"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."
-Seneca

"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."
-Seneca

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
-Seneca

"I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad."
-Seneca

"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."
-Seneca

"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse."
-Seneca

"When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
-Seneca

"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable."
-Seneca

"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature."
-Seneca

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
-Seneca in Friendship quotes.

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
-Seneca

"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
-Seneca

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."
-Seneca in Giving quotes.

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
-Seneca

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
-Seneca in God quotes.

"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one."
-Seneca

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
-Seneca

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."
-Seneca

"One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet)."
-Seneca

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
-Seneca