Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

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

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

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

It is not that we have so little time but that we waste so much of it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, because it is from within."

The only true wealth is time.

To learn to die is to learn to live.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless.

Time discovers truth. Time will vindicate.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

He who forgives most, gains most.

True friendship multiplies our joys and divides our sorrows.

Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.

I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.

We should not judge people by their successes, but by how they react to failure.

We learn not in school but in life.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

He who is brave is free.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms, you will be able to use them better when you are older.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Only time can heal what reason cannot.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool.

Hurry up and live.

Life is long, if you know how to use it.

While we wait for life, life passes.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

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