342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.