Life Quotes by Seneca the Younger

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

— Seneca the Younger

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.”

— Seneca the Younger

True love hates and will not bear delay.

— Seneca the Younger

Life without literary studies is death.

— Seneca the Younger

We are taught for the schoolroom not for life

— Seneca the Younger

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

— Seneca the Younger

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

— Seneca the Younger

Life is short and art is long.

— Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

— Seneca the Younger

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

— Seneca the Younger

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

— Seneca the Younger

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

— Seneca the Younger

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

— Seneca the Younger

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

— Seneca the Younger

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole…

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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he…

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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

— Seneca the Younger

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We…

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“There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession…

— Seneca the Younger

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of…

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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like…

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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason…

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“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while…

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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man…

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We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs,…

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The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that…

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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries…

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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of…

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What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does…

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It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come…

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It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in…

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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live…

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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

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Life without the courage to die is slavery.

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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

— Seneca the Younger

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

— Seneca the Younger

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

— Seneca the Younger