Stoic Quotes by
Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca
A man cannot live well if he knows not how to die well.
Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca
What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
Seneca
If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.
Seneca
The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to.
Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.
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The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.
Seneca
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
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Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another.
Seneca
Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well: they add every age to their own.
Seneca
We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world is my home country.'
Seneca
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
I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation.
Seneca
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
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Who scorns his own life is lord of yours.
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We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.
Seneca
Nothing satisfies greed, but even a little satisfies nature.
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You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.
Seneca
Besides, he who is feared, fears also; no one has been able to arouse terror and live in peace of mind.
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