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Seneca Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
— Seneca, Daily Stoic
Tagged: kindness, Positive Thoughts During Coronavirus
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Tagged: Reality, Pain, Imagination
“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”
— Seneca, SENECA- Álex Rovira
Tagged: Self-awareness, Perspective, Impressions, Self-Love
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
— Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Tagged: Cruelty, Weakness, Bad Behavior, Creative Mercy
“Life is long, if you know how to use it.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“All things happen to him, not according to his wish, but according to what he has thought. What he thinks above all is that something can always oppose his plans.”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“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.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“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.”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Minimalism & Simplicity
“Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: Life
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“People are delighted to accept pensions and gratuities, for which they hire out their labour or their support or their services. But nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But if death threatens these same people, you will see them praying to their doctors; if they are in fear of capital punishment, you will see them prepared to spend their all to stay alive.”
— Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life
Tagged: Seneca, Life Is Short, On The Shortness Of Life, Philosophy, Time
“We should imitate bees and we should keep in separate compartments whatever we have collected from our diverse reading, for things conserved separately keep better. Then, diligently applying all the resources of our native talent, we should mingle all the various nectars we have tasted, and turn them into a single sweet substance, in such a way that, even if it is apparent where it originated, it appears quite different from what it was in its original state.”
— Seneca, Seneca, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Tagged: Quote, Quote Collecting, Commonplace Books
“I know that you have plenty of spirit; for even before you began to equip yourself with maxims which were wholesome and potent to overcome obstacles, you were taking pride in your contest with Fortune; and this is all the more true, now that you have grappled with Fortune and tested your powers. For our powers can never inspire in us implicit faith in ourselves except when many difficulties have confronted us on this side and on that, and have occasionally even come to close quarters with us. It is only in this way that the true spirit can be tested,–the spirit that will never consent to come under the jurisdiction of things external to ourselves. This is the touchstone of such a spirit; no prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist...”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Prepare, Obstacles
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