Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

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2. “No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.”

— Seneca the Younger

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3. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

— Seneca the Younger

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4. “You are your choices.”

— Seneca the Younger

5. “If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”

— Seneca the Younger

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6. “While we teach, we learn.”

— Seneca the Younger

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7. “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

— Seneca the Younger

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8. “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

— Seneca the Younger

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9. “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”

— Seneca the Younger

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10. “If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.”

— Seneca the Younger

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11. “To rule yourself is the ultimate power.”

— Seneca the Younger

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12. “Every journey has an end.”

— Seneca the Younger

13. “The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.”

— Seneca the Younger

14. “You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”

— Seneca the Younger

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15. “Don’t stumble over something behind you.”

— Seneca the Younger

16. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca the Younger

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17. “He who is everywhere is nowhere.”

— Seneca the Younger

18. “The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”

— Seneca the Younger

19. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”

— Seneca the Younger

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20. “To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.”

— Seneca the Younger

21. “God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”

— Seneca the Younger

22. “Time discovers truth.”

— Seneca the Younger

23. “Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.”

— Seneca the Younger

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24. “Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”

— Seneca the Younger

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25. “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”

— Seneca the Younger

26. “Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”

— Seneca the Younger

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27. “When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

— Seneca the Younger

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28. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”

— Seneca the Younger

29. “Real improvement is of slow growth only.”

— Seneca the Younger

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30. “Many things have fallen only to rise higher.”

— Seneca the Younger

31. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

— Seneca the Younger

32. “Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.”

— Seneca the Younger

33. “We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”

— Seneca the Younger

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34. “The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.”

— Seneca the Younger

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35. “If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”

— Seneca the Younger

36. “To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”

— Seneca the Younger

37. “Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”

— Seneca the Younger

38. “Chance makes a plaything of a man’s life.”

— Seneca the Younger

39. “Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.”

— Seneca the Younger

40. “Men learn while they teach.”

— Seneca the Younger

41. “A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.”

— Seneca the Younger

42. “We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”

— Seneca the Younger

43. “No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”

— Seneca the Younger

44. “You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”

— Seneca the Younger

45. “Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.”

— Seneca the Younger

46. “Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.”

— Seneca the Younger

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47. “If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.”

— Seneca the Younger

48. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

— Seneca the Younger

49. “As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.”

— Seneca the Younger

50. “The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”

— Seneca the Younger