539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow’s.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.