Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.”

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102. “Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”

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103. “Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.”

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104. “He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.”

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105. “Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.”

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106. “The worse a person is the less he feels it.”

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107. “Self-denial is the best riches.”

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108. “The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.”

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109. “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.”

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110. “People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.”

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111. “The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.”

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112. “No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.”

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113. “Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

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114. “It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.”

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115. “If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.”

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116. “You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.”

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117. “He who has great power should use it lightly.”

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118. “It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.”

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119. “The way to good conduct is never too late.”

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120. “Love of action is not industry.”

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121. “Death is a release from and an end of all pains.”

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122. “Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.”

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123. “As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.”

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124. “Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.”

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125. “Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

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126. “The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds...”

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127. “Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.”

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128. “You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”

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129. “It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.”

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130. “The best cure for anger is delay.”

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131. “Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.”

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132. “There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.”

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133. “Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.”

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134. “What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed.”

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135. “Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”

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136. “If you wish to be loved, love.”

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137. “The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.”

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138. “Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura.”

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139. “The wish for healing has always been half of health.”

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140. “Whatever begins, also ends.”

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141. “Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”

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142. “Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.”

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143. “This life is only a prelude to eternity.”

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144. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”

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145. “We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.”

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146. “Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.”

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147. “The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.”

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148. “A great mind becomes a great fortune.”

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149. “Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.”

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150. “Life is most delightful on the downward slope.”

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