More Seneca Quotes

1. ...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the ...
   
2. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a m ...
   
3. A gift consists not in what is done or given, but ...
   
4. A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty c ...
   
5. A great fortune is a great slavery. ...
   
6. A great mind becomes a great fortune. ...
   
7. A great step toward independence is a good humored ...
   
8. A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ...
   
9. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one ...
   
10. All art is but imitation of nature. ...
    
11. All cruelty springs from weakness. ...
    
12. All things are cause for either laughter or weepin ...
    
13. An action will not be right unless the will be rig ...
    
14. An unpopular rule is never long maintained. ...
    
15. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtf ...
    
16. Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death ...
    
17. As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but h ...
    
18. As long as you live, keep learning how to live. ...
    
19. As was his language so was his life. ...
    
20. Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak ...
    
21. Be silent as to services you have rendered, but sp ...
    
22. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day ...
    
23. Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning h ...
    
24. Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . . ...
    
25. Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names ...
    
26. Consult your friend on all things, especially on t ...
    
27. Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insu ...
    
28. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not ...
    
29. Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed do ...
    
30. Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest f ...
    
31. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be benefic ...
    
32. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the bo ...
    
33. Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Ep ...
    
34. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to in ...
    
35. Everything is the product of one universal creativ ...
    
36. Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.) ...
    
37. Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all hi ...
    
38. Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilli ...
    
39. Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recogniz ...
    
40. Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so movin ...
    
41. Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men. ...
    
42. Great grief does not of itself put an end to itsel ...
    
43. He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but ...
    
44. He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits o ...
    
45. He who comes to a conclusion when the other side i ...
    
46. He who has great power should use it lightly. ...
    
47. He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker tha ...
    
48. He who spares the wicked injures the good. ...
    
49. He will live ill who does not know how to die well ...
    
50. I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, ...
    
51. I persist on praising not the life I lead, but tha ...
    
52. I require myself not to be equal to the best, but ...
    
53. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if ...
    
54. I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole ...
    
55. If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind ...
    
56. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, ...
    
57. If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never ...
    
58. If virtue precede us every step will be safe. ...
    
59. If we let things terrify us, life will not be wort ...
    
60. If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, t ...
    
61. If you wished to be loved, love. ...
    
62. In every good man a God doth dwell. ...
    
63. It does not matter how many books you have, but ho ...
    
64. It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a hel ...
    
65. It is a great thing to know the season for speech ...
    
66. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of gr ...
    
67. It is a youthful failing to be unable to control o ...
    
68. It is better, of cours, to know useless things tha ...
    
69. It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to r ...
    
70. It is extreme evil to depart from the company of t ...
    
71. It is not because things are difficult that we do ...
    
72. It is not the man who has too little, but the man ...
    
73. It is pleasant at times to play the madman. ...
    
74. It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ...
    
75. It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. ...
    
76. It is the failing of youth not to be able to restr ...
    
77. It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear ...
    
78. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of ...
    
79. It is well to be born either a king or a fool. ...
    
80. It should be our care not so much to live a long l ...
    
81. Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to ...
    
82. Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in ...
    
83. Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. ...
    
84. Let him that would move the world, first move hims ...
    
85. Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing i ...
    
86. Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let ...
    
87. Liesure without books is death, and burial of a ma ...
    
88. Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living we ...
    
89. Life without the courage for death is slavery. ...
    
90. Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God a ...
    
91. Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God ...
    
92. Live with men as if God saw you converse with God ...
    
93. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opport ...
    
94. Malice drinks one half of its own poison. ...
    
95. Many things have fallen only to rise higher. ...
    
96. Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how ...
    
97. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own pow ...
    
98. No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerf ...
    
99. No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who i ...
    
100. No man ever became wise by chance. ...
     
101. No man was ever wise by chance. ...
     
102. No one can wear a mask for very long. ...
     
103. Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to ...
     
104. Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers ...
     
105. Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honou ...
     
106. Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure ...
     
107. Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find ...
     
108. One hand washes the other. ...
     
109. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friend ...
     
110. One should count each day a separate life. ...
     
111. Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live accord ...
     
112. Our care should not be to have lived long as to ha ...
     
113. Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis te ...
     
114. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, ...
     
115. Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some t ...
     
116. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ...
     
117. Speech is the mirror of the mind. ...
     
118. That grief is light which can take counsel. ...
     
119. The arts are the servant wisdom its master. ...
     
120. The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. ...
     
121. The best ideas are common property. ...
     
122. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great m ...
     
123. The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, ...
     
124. The first step towards amendment is the recognitio ...
     
125. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation ...
     
126. The greatest remedy for anger is delay. ...
     
127. The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. ...
     
128. The hour which gives us life begins to take it awa ...
     
129. The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. ...
     
130. The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to onese ...
     
131. The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produc ...
     
132. The path of precept is long, that of example short ...
     
133. The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ...
     
134. The soul has this proof of its divinity that divin ...
     
135. The spirit in which a thing is given determines th ...
     
136. The true felicity of life is to be free from anxie ...
     
137. The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ...
     
138. There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us ...
     
139. There is a noble manner of being poor and who does ...
     
140. There is no genius free from some tincture of madn ...
     
141. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a ...
     
142. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient m ...
     
143. Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remembe ...
     
144. This body is not a home but an inn, and that only ...
     
145. This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit ke ...
     
146. Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joy ...
     
147. Time discovers truth. ...
     
148. Time heals what reason cannot. ...
     
149. To be always fortunate, and to pass through life w ...
     
150. To be feared is to fear no one has been able to st ...
     
151. To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules O ...
     
152. To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with l ...
     
153. To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superi ...
     
154. To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ...
     
155. Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or ...
     
156. truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit) ...
     
157. Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. ...
     
158. We are more wicked together than separately. If yo ...
     
159. We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys o ...
     
160. We learn not in the school, but in life. ...
     
161. We most often go astray on a well trodden and much ...
     
162. We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to ...
     
163. We should every night call ourselves to an account ...
     
164. We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, qu ...
     
165. Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a ...
     
166. What difference does it make how much you have Wha ...
     
167. What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing ...
     
168. What once were vices are manners now. ...
     
169. Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has r ...
     
170. Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has p ...
     
171. Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. ...
     
172. Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. ...
     
173. Wherever there is a human being, there is an oppor ...
     
174. While the fates permit, live happily life speeds o ...
     
175. While we are postponing, life speeds by. ...
     
176. Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet ...
     
177. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as ...
     
178. Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how ...
     
179. You can tell the character of every man when you s ...