475 Quotes by Seneca

What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

But what difference does it make who spoke the words? They were uttered for the world.

They are pleased to deceive themselves, as if they deceived Fate at the same time.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Our soul is sometimes a king, sometimes a tyrant. An uncontrolled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king to the most-feared tyrant.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.