Seneca Quotes

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

2.While we wait for life, life passes.

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

4.True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

5.No man was ever wise by chance.

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

7.The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

8.The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

9.If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

11.There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

13.Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

14.Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

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

16.No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.

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

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

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

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

21.The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

22.We learn not in school, but in life.

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

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

25.The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

26.Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that caused it.

27.If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

28.He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.