Top 200 Seneca Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

— Seneca

2. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Determination Quotes, Adversity Quotes

3. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

Featured in: Stoic Philosophy Quotes

4. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

5. “There is no genius without a touch of madness.”

— Seneca

6. “He who is brave is free.”

— Seneca

7. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

Featured in: Quotes About Strength

8. “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

— Seneca

9. “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

— Seneca

10. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

— Seneca

11. “Ignorance is the cause of fear.”

— Seneca

12. “It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

13. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

— Seneca

14. “No man was ever wise by chance.”

— Seneca

15. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

— Seneca

16. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

— Seneca

17. “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

— Seneca

18. “All cruelty springs from weakness.”

— Seneca

19. “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

21. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

Featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

22. “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

24. “Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

— Seneca

25. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

— Seneca

26. “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

— Seneca

27. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

29. “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”

— Seneca

30. “It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”

— Seneca

31. “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

— Seneca

32. “What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”

— Seneca

33. “It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

— Seneca

34. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Seneca

35. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

37. “Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

— Seneca

38. “To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”

— Seneca

39. “It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”

— Seneca

40. “Injustice never rules forever.”

— Seneca

41. “No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.”

— Seneca

42. “A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.”

— Seneca

43. “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.”

— Seneca

44. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.”

— Seneca

45. “To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.”

— Seneca

46. “Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Seneca

47. “He who spares the wicked injures the good.”

— Seneca

48. “If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”

— Seneca

49. “The best ideas are common property.”

— Seneca

50. “I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

— Seneca