Seneca Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

120 Famous Quotes by Seneca
“Injustice never rules forever”
Injustice Quotes
“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”
Judgement Quotes
“While we teach, we learn.”
Learning Quotes
“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
Luck Quotes
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.”
Nature Quotes
“Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.”
Night Quotes
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Play Quotes
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
Possessions Quotes
“He is most powerful who has power over himself”
Power Quotes
“If you judge, investigate”
Questioning Quotes
“Suppose we've chosen the wrong god”
Religion Quotes
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
Risk-taking Quotes
“We learn not in the school, but in life”
Schools Quotes
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Self-control Quotes
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh”
Sensuality Quotes
“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”
Sharing Quotes
“Life without the courage for death is slavery”
Slavery Quotes
“Time discovers truth.”
Time Quotes
“Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers”
Time Quotes
“A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands”
Weapons Quotes
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.”
Future Quotes
“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.”
Judgement Quotes
“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.”
Knowledge Quotes
“It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.”
Passion Quotes
“Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.”
Tears Quotes