342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Maximum remedium est irae mora.

You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.

Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

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

Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.