539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Apples taste sweetest when they’re going.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Every journey has an end.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.