Seneca Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

120 Famous Quotes by Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
Kindness Quotes
“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.”
Opportunity Quotes
“Abstinence is easier than temperance”
Abstinence Quotes
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Actors and acting Quotes
“Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.”
Adultery Quotes
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember”
Adversity Quotes
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness”
Alcohol Quotes
“He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another”
Ancestry Quotes
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
Beginning Quotes
“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands”
Books Quotes
“You are your choices.”
Choices Quotes
“He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.”
Crime Quotes
“He who profits by a crime commits it”
Crime Quotes
“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.”
Culture Quotes
“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow”
Debt Quotes
“It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.”
Difficulty Quotes
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
Difficulty Quotes
“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient”
Duty Quotes
“It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die”
Evil Quotes
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Excellence Quotes
“He who is brave is free.”
Freedom Quotes
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Genius Quotes
“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”
Health Quotes
“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.”
Ignorance Quotes
“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
Injustice Quotes