539 Quotes by Seneca the Younger

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.