Seneca Quotes

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

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.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

For greed all nature is too little.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

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

What once were vices are now manners.

Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.

A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.

They laboriously do nothing.

One should count each day a separate life.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

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

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.

Time discovered truth.

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

Love of bustle is not industry.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

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