Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Biography: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, commonly known as Seneca the Younger, is renown... more Biography: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, commonly known as Seneca the Younger, is renowned as a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. Born around 4 BCE, he served as an advisor to Emperor Nero. Seneca's works on ethics, such as "Letters to Lucilius," remain influential in the study of Stoic philosophy. less

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity""As is a tale so is life: not how long it is""Begin at once to live and count each""We are more often frightened than hurt""A gem cannot be polished without friction""A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool""It’s not that life is too short, it’s that we wait so long to begin""Life is long if you know how to use it.""He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.""We should every night call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?""Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.""It is not the man with too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.""The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.""If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.""True wealth consists in not having many possessions, but in having few wants.""It is the mind that commands the body and always obeys when the mind asks.""People are afraid to take risks, not because of the stakes involved, but because of the risk of failure.""To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.""The difficulty comes from our lack of harmony with nature.""It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

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