Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

153. “Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.”

— Seneca the Younger

154. “Whatever begins, also ends.”

— Seneca the Younger

155. “The abundance of books is distraction.”

— Seneca the Younger

156. “It’s all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.”

— Seneca the Younger

157. “He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”

— Seneca the Younger

158. “See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.”

— Seneca the Younger

159. “You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.”

— Seneca the Younger

160. “Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.”

— Seneca the Younger

161. “Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.”

— Seneca the Younger

162. “Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.”

— Seneca the Younger

163. “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

— Seneca the Younger

164. “Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.”

— Seneca the Younger

165. “Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.”

— Seneca the Younger

166. “Death: There’s nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

168. “On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.”

— Seneca the Younger

169. “In war there is no prize for runner-up.”

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

171. “There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.”

— Seneca the Younger

172. “Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.”

— Seneca the Younger

173. “The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.”

— Seneca the Younger

174. “Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.”

— Seneca the Younger

175. “No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.”

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

177. “For greed, all nature is too little.”

— Seneca the Younger

178. “He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.”

— Seneca the Younger

179. “Truth never perishes.”

— Seneca the Younger

180. “Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.”

— Seneca the Younger

181. “To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-.”

— Seneca the Younger

182. “There is no power greater than true affection.”

— Seneca the Younger

183. “We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.”

— Seneca the Younger

184. “Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.”

— Seneca the Younger

185. “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.”

— Seneca the Younger

186. “Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

— Seneca the Younger

187. “Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.”

— Seneca the Younger

188. “No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.”

— Seneca the Younger

189. “He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.”

— Seneca the Younger

190. “You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”

— Seneca the Younger

191. “The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.”

— Seneca the Younger

192. “When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.”

— Seneca the Younger

193. “Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.”

— Seneca the Younger

194. “No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.”

— Seneca the Younger

195. “You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.”

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196. “Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?”

— Seneca the Younger

197. “Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.”

— Seneca the Younger

198. “A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.”

— Seneca the Younger

199. “Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.”

— Seneca the Younger

200. “The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.”

— Seneca the Younger