Quotes from Seneca

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh

He who is brave is free.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

If you wish to be loved, love