Famous Quotes by Seneca

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”

“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”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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

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

“The best ideas are common property”

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

“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”

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

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

Excessive indulgence can never be beneficial.

In over-indulgence, we lose sight of what we truly need.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

He who is brave is free.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

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