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

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

We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.

Let us not postpone anything, let us engage in combats with life each day.

All cruelty springs from weakness

The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason.

He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears.

Revenge is an admission of pain: a mind that is bowed by injury is not a great mind.

You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

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

The best remedy for anger is delay.

When I think of all I have said, I envy the mute.

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