Quotes by Seneca

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."

Seneca on adversity   

"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Seneca on adversity
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Seneca on adversity
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"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

Seneca on adversity
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca on adversity
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still."

Seneca on age and aging
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"There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world."

Seneca on age and aging   

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."

Seneca on death
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

Seneca on death
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

Seneca on difficulties
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"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline."

Seneca on discipline   

"Disease is not of the body but of the place."

Seneca on disease   

"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."

Seneca on economy and economics
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"Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure."

Seneca on empire   

"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."

Seneca on evil   

"The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective."

Seneca on example   

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

Seneca on excellence
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"Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?"

Seneca on expectation   

"Do everything as in the eye of another."

Seneca on eyes
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."

Seneca on fate
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"Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order."

Seneca on fate   

"The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling."

Seneca on fate   

"Where the fear is, happiness is not."

Seneca on fear   

"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."

Seneca on fear
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself."

Seneca on fools and foolishness   

"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms."

Seneca on freedom   

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat."

Seneca on futility   

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

Seneca on gifts   

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca on giving
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"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."

Seneca on giving   

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it."

Seneca on ambition   

"Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others."

Seneca on ancestry