Seneca Quotes
4 BC – 65
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. His letters and essays on Stoic philosophy remain some of antiquity's most readable and practically applicable works.
36 quotesAbout Seneca on Wikipedia
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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
“Let the man who would be grateful think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.”
“If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.”
“Those things which were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
“Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.”
“Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.”
“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”
“When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
