Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

No man ever became wise by chance.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.