475 Quotes by Seneca

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.

In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Most people complain that life is too short. To these bitter folk, life hurtles by like a runaway mare, so fast and furious that it is impossible to discern its meaning before it is too late.

I am often filled with wonder when I see some men demanding the time of others and those from whom they ask it most indulgent. Both of them fix their eyes on the object of the request for time, neither of them on the time itself; just as if what is asked were nothing, what is given, nothing.

For greed all nature is too little.