Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time discovers truth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is brave is free. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True happiness is… to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be everywhere is to be nowhere. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should always look out for those who are inferior to us and help them with their needs. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes part 2

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is brave is free. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we wait for life, life passes. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we wait for life, life passes. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A good character, when established, is not easily overthrown by ill fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You are your own worst enemy. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Learning never exhausts the mind. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is greedy is always in want. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wealth unused might as well not exist. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Luck is the residue of design. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wish to be loved, love. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Who begins too much accomplishes little. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who fears death will never do anything worth of a life. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time discovers truth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca