"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“He who is brave is free”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Vita sine litteris mors ('Life without Learning is Death")
—Seneca, the younger (4BC-65AD)
"There’s no right way to do the wrong thing."
— Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Docendo discimus, (Latin "by teaching, we learn")
—Seneca the Younger (4BC-65AD)
"nothing satisfies greed, but even a little satisfies nature"
—Seneca the Younger (4BC-65AD)
"Really true, good and great things are always simple"
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much better."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"at times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine:
for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind, and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“We learn not in the school, but in life.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Timendi causa est nescire"
("Ignorance is the cause of fear.”)
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)