Quotes from Seneca the Younger

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

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

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

While we wait for life, life passes

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Life is long if it is full.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

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

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Life is short and art is long.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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 shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.