47 Quotes by Seneca the Elder

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

All art is an imitation of nature.

If you want to be loved, love.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.