Stoic Quotes - Seneca

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“There is no genius without a touch of madness.”
― Seneca

 

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― Seneca

 

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

 

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

 

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
― Seneca

 

“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.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca

 

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
― Seneca

 

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
― Seneca

 

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
― Seneca

 

“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
― Seneca

 

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
― Seneca

 

“We learn not in the school, but in life.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca