Quotes from Seneca the Younger

You are your choices.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

As was his language so was his life.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

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.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

The part of life which we really live is short.