539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.