Seneca Quotes

Inwardly everything should be different, but out outward face should conform with the crowd.

Mors dolorum omnium exsolutio est et finis ultra quem mala nostra non exeunt, quae nos in illam tranquillitatem in qua antequam nasceremur iacuimus reponit. Si mortuorum aliquis miseretur, et non natorum misereatur. Mors nec bonum nec malum est; id enim potest aut bonum aut malum esse quod aliquid est; quod uero ipsum nihil est et omnia in nihilum redigit, nulli nos fortunae tradit. Mala enim bonaque circa aliquam uersantur materiam: non potest id fortuna tenere quod natura dimisit, nec potest miser esse qui nullus est.

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

You should keep learning to the end of your life.

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

I enjoy my life thus far because I don’t spend too much time measuring how long all this will remain.

Plura sunt, Lucili, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.

Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight.

The mind must be indulged, and leisure must be given from time to time, which is the place of food and strength.

Live for others if you want to live for yourself.

Nemo quam bene vivat sed quam diu curat, cum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivant, ut diu nulli.

Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

A good person dyes events with his own color...and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

I am tortured, but behaving bravely.