Seneca Quotes

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?

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

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

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

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Begin at once to live.

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

Let our labour not be in vain and without result, nor the result unworthy of our labour.

he lives as though he were lent to himself and bound to return the load on demand without complaint

In any situation in life you will find delights and relaxations and pleasures if you are prepared to make light of your troubles and not let them distress you.

The mass of books burden the student without instructing him, and it is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among many

aim to acquire our riches from ourselves rather than from Fortune.

How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.