475 Quotes by Seneca

Nature has been good to us, not cruel. A life spent can truly be a long life.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

It is likely that some troubles will befall us; but it is not a present fact. How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never come to pass!

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

No one can have all he wants, but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.