Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

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52. “To the stars through difficulties.”

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53. “Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”

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54. “Where fear is, happiness is not.”

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55. “Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”

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56. “It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.”

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57. “The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.”

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58. “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

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59. “A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he’s no taller.”

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60. “The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.”

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61. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”

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62. “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.”

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63. “It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.”

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64. “Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.”

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65. “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

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66. “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.”

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67. “Learn how to feel joy.”

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68. “Nothing is ours except time.”

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69. “It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and – even more surprising – it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”

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70. “Money has never yet made anyone rich.”

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71. “Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.”

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72. “A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

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73. “What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.”

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74. “One hand washes the other.”

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75. “For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.”

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76. “The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.”

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77. “He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.”

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78. “The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.”

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79. “It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

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80. “It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.”

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81. “There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.”

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82. “Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.”

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83. “Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.”

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84. “As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.”

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85. “Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow’s.”

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86. “These individulas have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.”

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87. “Teach the art of living well.”

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88. “The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.”

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89. “Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

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90. “No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.”

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91. “I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.”

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

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93. “A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”

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94. “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.”

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95. “Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.”

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96. “We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.”

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97. “The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.”

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98. “The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.”

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99. “There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”

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100. “Man is a reasoning Animal.”

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