Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The final test of freedom is this: Can you remain the same person in praise, in insult, in gain, and in loss?

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

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.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

While we teach, we learn.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.The greatest remedy for anger is delay.How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Like our stomachs, our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.

No man was ever wise by chance.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

He who is brave is free.

Learning how to live takes a whole life.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary.

‚How much progress shall I make?’ you ask. Just as much as you try to make.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Happy is he who can improve others not just when he is in their presence, but even when he is in their thoughts.

Everything hangs on one’s thinking… A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Nothing delights the mind as much as loving and loyal friendship.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The mind must be given relaxation. It will rise improved and sharper after a good break.

We hold the flaws of others before our eyes but turn our backs toward our own.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.

You should keep learning…to the end of your life.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving.

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.