Seneca Quotes

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.

~ Seneca

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

~ Seneca

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

~ Seneca

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

~ Seneca

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

~ Seneca

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

~ Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

~ Seneca

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

~ Seneca

All cruelty springs from weakness.

~ Seneca

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

~ Seneca

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

~ Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

~ Seneca

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

~ Seneca

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

~ Seneca

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~ Seneca

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

~ Seneca