Seneca Quotes

I will keep constant watch over myself and‚ most usefully‚ will put each day up for review.

He robs presents ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Crimes often return upon the teacher.

Things ’twas hard to bear ’tis pleasant to recall.

No one has condemned wisdom to poverty. The philosopher shall own ample wealth, but it will have been wrested from no man, nor will it be stained with another’s blood.

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

Marcet sine adversario virtus.

Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!

I may become a poor man; I shall then be one among many. I may be exiled; I shall then regard myself as born in the place to which I shall be sent. They may put me in chains. What then? Am I free from bonds now? Behold this clogging burden of a body, to which nature has fettered me! “I shall die,” you say; you mean to say “I shall cease to run the risk of sickness; I shall cease to run the risk of imprisonment; I shall cease to run the risk of death.”

Should I be surprised that dangers which have always surrounded me should at last attack me? A great part of mankind, when about to sail, do not think of a storm.

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

The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

For no man is free who is a slave to his body.

You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.