Seneca Quotes
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."— Seneca
No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.
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.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk
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
Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
¿Preguntas cúal es el fundamento de la sabiduría? No gozarte en cosas vanas.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.
A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
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.
Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.