Seneca Quotes

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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 like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

No man was ever wise by chance

The best ideas are common property

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other
misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day

No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity

that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation

we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be

Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.

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

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of
Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was
indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.