Seneca Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and satirist.

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To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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Injustice never rules forever
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation; for there is little grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
– Seneca the Younger

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
– Seneca

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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
– Seneca

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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For greed, all nature is too little.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Men learn while they teach.
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