Quotes by Seneca

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.””

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire””

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.””

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.””

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

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.””

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.””

“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.””

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.””

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.””

“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.””

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.””