Quotes from Seneca

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

Luck never made a man wise.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Time heals what reason cannot.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

I don't mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.