Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.””

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

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

“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.””

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

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.””

“The sun also shines on the wicked.””

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

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality””

“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.””

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.””

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

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

“We learn not in the school, but in life.””