342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

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

Qui mori didicit servire dedidicit.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

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