Seneca the Younger Quotes About Life

• The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Giving, Hours

• Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophical, Men

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• 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 the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Appreciation, Adversity

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Men, Chance

• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Ignorant

• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

• Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Kindness

• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Money

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• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Death

• Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Speech, Feels

• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

• To the believers it is true.
  To the wise it is false.
  To the leaders it is useful.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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  Life, Evil, Fields

• You are your choices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

• Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Procrastination, Acting

• Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Honor

• But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Success, Money

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