Quotes from Seneca

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared; all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

What once were vices are manners now.

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Time discovered truth.

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

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.