Quotes by Seneca

Explore a curated collection of 107 quotes by Seneca. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. — Seneca
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Seneca
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars — Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance — Seneca
The best ideas are common property — Seneca
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis. — Seneca
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is a — Seneca
On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. — Seneca
Amintirea plăcerilor este mai de durată și mai de încredere decât prezența lor. — Seneca
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. — Seneca
I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but tha — Seneca
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia . — Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either h — Seneca
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly — Seneca
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. — Seneca
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. — Seneca
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. — Seneca
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction) — Seneca