--- title: "2 Claim Quotes By Seneca" description: "2 Claim quotes by Seneca. Plus more from Seneca and more Claim sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg" --- > [“Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without-being-disliked-by-anyone/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg) > [“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-each-of-us-lays-claim-to-his/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/seneca-956_claim_we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-e_2998313.jpg) ## Other authors on Claim ## More by Seneca > [“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/you-should-i-need-hardly-say-live-in-such-a-way-that-there-is-nothing/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/the-difficulty-comes-from-our-lack-of-confidence/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/fate-leads-the-willing-and-drags-along-the-unwilling/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/the-wise-man-is-self-sufficient-that-he-can-do-without-friends-not/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/this-i-say-is-the-highest-duty-and-the-highest-proof-of-wisdom-that/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/but-both-courses-are-to-be-avoided-you-should-not-copy-the-bad-simply/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/virtue-alone-affords-everlasting-and-peace-giving-joy-even-if-some/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/i-ve-come-across-people-who-say-that-there-is-a-sort-of-inborn/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/withdraw-into-yourself-as-far-as-you-can-associate-with-those-who/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/economy-is-too-late-at-the-bottom-of-the-purse/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/on-epicurus-he-says-contended-poverty-is-an-honourable-estate-indeed/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/certain-people-have-good-ordinary-blood-and-others-have-an-animated/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“we perish because we follow other men's examples: we should be cured of this if we were to disengage ourselves from the herd;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/we-perish-because-we-follow-other-men-s-examples-we-should-be-cured/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/they-whatever-can-make-life-truly-happy-is-absolutely-good-in-its-own/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) > [“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/and-when-the-soul-has-yielded-to-pleasure-its-functions-and-actions/) [Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claim/seneca/#itemlist", "name": "2 Claim Quotes By Seneca", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seneca" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without-being-disliked-by-anyone/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without…” — Seneca", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seneca" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-each-of-us-lays-claim-to-his/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/seneca-956_claim_we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-e_2998313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/seneca-956_claim_we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-e_2998313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/seneca-956_claim_we-stoics-are-not-subjects-of-a-despot-e_2998313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.” — Seneca", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claim/seneca/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claim/seneca/", "name": "Claim Quotes by Seneca", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claim/seneca/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f9/seneca-956_peace_peace-you-can-claim-for-yourself-without_1972178.jpg" }, "description": "2 Claim quotes by Seneca. 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