Seneca Quotes

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.

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Native Name: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alternative Names: Seneca the Younger • the Younger Seneca • Lucio Anneo Seneca • Annaeus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor • Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior • L. Annæus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger

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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all you desire.

He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.

Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet

Nam illa tumultu gaudens non est industria sed exagitatae mentis concursatio.

ars prima regni est posse invidiam pati.

If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Associate with those who will make a better man of you.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Great also are the souls of the defenders—men who know that, as long as the path to death lies open, the blockade is not complete, men who breathe their last in the arms of liberty.

Cogi qui potest nescit mori.

Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest.

It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.

Upon nothing am I more strongly resolved than not to change my course of life to suit your opinion.

Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis.

Death weighs heavy on one
who, too well known to all,
died unknown to himself.