--- title: "33 Knows Quotes By Seneca the Younger" description: "33 Knows quotes by Seneca the Younger. Plus more from Seneca the Younger and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/seneca-the-younger-219_compelled_the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-h_768280.jpg" --- > [The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-how-to-die/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/seneca-the-younger-219_compelled_the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-h_768280.jpg) > [Know thyself; this is the great object.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/know-thyself-this-is-the-great-object/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/seneca-the-younger-219_know-thyself_know-thyself-this-is-the-great-object-11_1126393.jpg) > [He worships God who knows him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-worships-god-who-knows-him/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/seneca-the-younger-219_god_he-worships-god-who-knows-him-1992224_1992224.jpg) > [Those alone are wise who know how to love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/those-alone-are-wise-who-know-how-to-love/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/seneca-the-younger-219_how-to-love_those-alone-are-wise-who-know-how-to-lov_697473.jpg) > [There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-is-no-fair-wind-for-one-who-knows-not-whither-he-is-bound/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/seneca-the-younger-219_bounds_there-is-no-fair-wind-for-one-who-knows_1573331.jpg) > [The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-great-thing-is-to-know-when-to-speak-and-when-to-keep-quiet/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/seneca-the-younger-219_great-things_the-great-thing-is-to-know-when-to-speak_2494464.jpg) > [If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/if-you-don-t-know-ask-you-will-be-a-fool-for-the-moment-but-a-wise/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/seneca-the-younger-219_asks_if-you-don-t-know-ask-you-will-be-a-fool_1892780.jpg) > [It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-never-too-late-to-learn-what-is-always-necessary-to-know/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/seneca-the-younger-219_education_it-is-never-too-late-to-learn-what-is-al_117837.jpg) > [Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/our-the-stoic-motto-as-you-know-is-live-according-to-nature/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c38/seneca-the-younger-219_inspirational_our-the-stoic-motto-as-you-know-is-live_1921138.jpg) > [If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/if-you-don-t-know-what-port-you-are-sailing-to-no-wind-is-favourable/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/seneca-the-younger-219_ifs_if-you-don-t-know-what-port-you-are-sail_1651964.jpg) > [It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-better-to-have-useless-knowledge-than-to-know-nothing/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/seneca-the-younger-219_inspirational_it-is-better-to-have-useless-knowledge-t_90389.jpg) > [You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/you-should-keep-on-learning-as-long-as-there-is-something-you-do-not/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd1/seneca-the-younger-219_education_you-should-keep-on-learning-as-long-as-t_2171674.jpg) > [Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/nothing-is-so-false-as-human-life-nothing-so-treacherous-god-knows-no/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/seneca-the-younger-219_accepted_nothing-is-so-false-as-human-life-nothin_950564.jpg) > [I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/i-know-that-nothing-comes-to-pass-but-what-god-appoints-our-fate-is/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/seneca-the-younger-219_chance_i-know-that-nothing-comes-to-pass-but-wh_1538281.jpg) > [What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/what-view-is-one-likely-to-take-of-the-state-of-a-person-s-mind-when/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/219/seneca-the-younger-219_communication_what-view-is-one-likely-to-take-of-the-s_669120.jpg) > [The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-philosopher-he-alone-knows-how-to-live-for-himself-he-is-the-one/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/seneca-the-younger-219_facts_the-philosopher-he-alone-knows-how-to-li_1209028.jpg) > [Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-us-cherish-and-love-old-age-for-it-is-full-of-pleasure-if-you/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/seneca-the-younger-219_age_let-us-cherish-and-love-old-age-for-it-i_1350816.jpg) > [If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-is-steering-no-wind-is/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/seneca-the-younger-219_doe_if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-i_121098.jpg) > [You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/you-want-to-live-but-do-you-know-how-to-live-you-are-scared-of-dying/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/seneca-the-younger-219_death_you-want-to-live-but-do-you-know-how-to_670136.jpg) > [A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-single-lifetime-even-though-entirely-devoted-to-the-sky-would-not/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/seneca-the-younger-219_amazed_a-single-lifetime-even-though-entirely-d_1622039.jpg) > [As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/as-for-old-age-embrace-and-love-it-it-abounds-with-pleasure-if-you/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/seneca-the-younger-219_age_as-for-old-age-embrace-and-love-it-it-ab_1512771.jpg) > [It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-passes-in-the-world-for-greatness-of-mind-to-be-perpetually-giving/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d35/seneca-the-younger-219_bounty_it-passes-in-the-world-for-greatness-of_2638579.jpg) > [It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-one-thing-to-remember-another-to-know-to-remember-is-to/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/seneca-the-younger-219_book_it-is-one-thing-to-remember-another-to-k_2254285.jpg) > [A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-good-conscience-fears-no-witness-but-a-guilty-conscience-is/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/seneca-the-younger-219_conscience_a-good-conscience-fears-no-witness-but-a_2223376.jpg) > [We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/we-haven-t-time-to-spare-to-hear-whether-it-was-between-italy-and/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/195/seneca-the-younger-219_driven_we-haven-t-time-to-spare-to-hear-whether_97788.jpg) > [We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/we-all-sorely-complain-of-the-shortness-of-time-and-yet-have-much/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f37/seneca-the-younger-219_acting_we-all-sorely-complain-of-the-shortness_332198.jpg) > [The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-condition-of-all-who-are-preoccupied-is-wretched-but-most/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/seneca-the-younger-219_cases_the-condition-of-all-who-are-preoccupied_785071.jpg) > [You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/you-must-know-for-which-harbor-you-are-headed-if-you-are-to-catch-the/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/seneca-the-younger-219_brighten-your-day_you-must-know-for-which-harbor-you-are-h_2088718.jpg) > [To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/to-the-person-who-does-not-know-where-he-wants-to-go-there-is-no/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/seneca-the-younger-219_doe_to-the-person-who-does-not-know-where-he_2494820.jpg) > [Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/just-where-death-is-expecting-you-is-something-we-cannot-know-so-for/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/seneca-the-younger-219_death_just-where-death-is-expecting-you-is-som_2332658.jpg) > [Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/epileptics-know-by-signs-when-attacks-are-imminent-and-take/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/seneca-the-younger-219_anger_epileptics-know-by-signs-when-attacks-ar_71556.jpg) > [Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/precepts-or-maxims-are-of-great-weight-and-a-few-useful-ones-at-hand/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26b/seneca-the-younger-219_hands_precepts-or-maxims-are-of-great-weight-a_3111255.jpg) > [The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-wise-man-lacked-nothing-but-needed-a-great-number-of-things/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/seneca-the-younger-219_doe_the-wise-man-lacked-nothing-but-needed-a_1295327.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Seneca the Younger > [There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-is-nothing-that-we-can-properly-call-our-own-but-our-time-and/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [It is for the superfluous we sweat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-for-the-superfluous-we-sweat/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-trust-rather-to-their-eyes-than-to-their-ears-the-effect-of/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-great-step-towards-independence-is-a-good-humored-stomach-one-that/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-can-be-divided-into-2-groups-one-that-goes-ahead-and-achieves/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/leisure-without-study-is-death-and-the-grave-of-a-living-man/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/such-as-the-chain-of-causes-we-call-fate-such-is-the-chain-of-wishes/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [To rule yourself is the ultimate power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/to-rule-yourself-is-the-ultimate-power/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-road-by-precepts-is-tedious-by-example-short-and-efficacious/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/misfortune-is-the-test-of-a-person-s-merit/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 death. Life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-who-does-not-want-to-die-should-not-want-to-live-for-life-is/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-us-not-seek-our-disease-out-of-ourselves-tis-in-us-and-planted-in/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [After death there is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/after-death-there-is-nothing/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/adversity-finds-at-last-the-man-whom-she-has-often-passed-by/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) > [Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/hesitation-is-the-best-cure-for-anger-the-first-blows-of-anger-are/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/seneca-the-younger/#itemlist", "name": "33 Knows Quotes By Seneca the Younger", "numberOfItems": 33, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Seneca the Younger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-how-to-die/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/seneca-the-younger-219_compelled_the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-h_768280.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/seneca-the-younger-219_compelled_the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-h_768280.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/seneca-the-younger-219_compelled_the-man-who-can-be-compelled-knows-not-h_768280.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.” — Seneca the Younger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Know thyself; 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