Seneca's 100 Best Phrases

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Robert Johnston
Seneca's 100 Best Phrases

I leave you the best phrases by Lucio Anneo Seneca, in Latin Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) Roman philosopher, politician, orator, and writer known for his moralistic works.

You may also be interested in these quotes from philosophers, these from Plato or these from Aristotle.

-If a man does not know which port he is sailing to, he will never have a favorable wind.

-He who is brave is free.

-We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

-Life is like a play: it does not matter the length, but the excellence of the performance.

-Get involved with people who can make you better.

-Ignorance is the cause of fear.

-Wealth is the slave of the wise man. The Fool's Master.

-The most powerful is the one in your own power.

-We do not learn in school, but in life.

-As long as you live, keep learning to live.

-There is no genius without a touch of madness.

-What is harder than rock? What is smoother than water? However, hard rocks are pierced by water.

-Consider a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

-What man can you show me that puts some value in his time, that counts the value of each day, that understands that he is dying every day?

-It is more civilized to make fun of life than to mourn it.

-To gain true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

-No man is more unhappy than the one who never faces adversity, because he is not allowed to prove himself.

-While we wait for life, life passes.

-Only time can heal what reason cannot.

-It is not the one who has little who is poor, but who yearns for more.

-All cruelty arises from weakness. 

-Sometimes even living is an act of courage.

-Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

-Difficulties strengthen the mind, as work strengthens the body.

-Hold on to your youthful enthusiasm, you will be able to use it better when you are older.

-I will never be ashamed to quote a bad author if his argument is good..

-The power of the mind is to be unconquerable.

-The life we ​​receive is not short, but we do it that way; we are not badly supplied, but we waste what we have.

-No man was wise by chance.

-He suffers more than necessary, he who suffers before it is necessary.

-The Sun also shines on the wicked.

-A sword never kills anyone; is a tool in the hand of the murderer.

-If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you need is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person..

-Fate leads the willing and drags the reluctant.

-There will come a time when our descendants will be surprised that we do not know the things that are so obvious to them..

-Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

-Wishing to be okay is a part of being okay.

-To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical.

-The one who hurt you was stronger or weaker than you. If it is weaker, leave it; if it is stronger, take care.

-If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live by what others think you will never be rich.

-Life is long, if you know how to live it.

-He who forgives the bad hurts the good.

-It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

-With lessons, it is difficult to lead people to kindness, but easy to do it by example.

-Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age..

-I was not born for a corner; the whole world is my homeland.

-The other side must also be heard.

-True happiness is understanding our duties towards God and man.

-The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

-The best ideas are common property.

-Beyond all things, there is the sea.

-It is quality, rather than quantity, that matters.

-Acquire every day something that strengthens you against poverty, against death, and against other misfortunes.

-Make sure of only one thing before the day of your death comes, that your faults die before you.

-Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

-Of course, it is better to know useless things than to know nothing.

-Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

-Light penalties are talkative, but big ones are stupid.

-Put aside all obstacles and give up your time to achieve a healthy mind.

-If we could be satisfied with something, we should have been satisfied a long time ago.

-Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

-Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary insanity.

-There is no enjoyment in owning anything valuable unless you have someone to share it with..

-It's not that we have little time, it's that we waste a lot.

-Loyalty bought with money can be destroyed by money itself.

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

-It is something very great to know the station for speech and the station for silence..

-A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm gets praise, but when her overall appearance diverts admiration from individual parts of her body..

-One of the most beautiful characteristics of a true friendship is understanding and being understood.

-True peace of mind is enjoying the present, without being anxiously dependent on the future..

-Death is the deepest desire of some, the consolation of many and the end that corresponds to all.

-We are usually more scared than hurt.

-Leisure time without books is the death and burial of every man who is alive.

-Love in its purest essence, means spiritual fire.

-The greatest remedy for anger is patience.

-Anger, if not restrained little by little, often turns into something considerably harmful to us..

-If someone tells you that the best life of all is the one where you navigate the sea and then adds that you should not navigate in a sea where shipwrecks are common, I conclude that this man, although he praises navigation, really forbids me to launch my boat.

-Wealth is always the slave of a wise man, when the master is a fool.

-The purpose of a gift is not what is done or given, but rather the intention of the person who makes it.

-They completely wasted the day by waiting for the night, and in the same way at night with fear of the dawn.

-The future as a whole is in uncertainty, so try to live immediately.

-Wherever any human being is, there is a probability of goodness.

-Any man who is in charge of anticipating the arrival of conflicts, takes power away from problems when they first arrive.

-Silence is a teaching through the many sufferings of life.

-We should not, like sheep, chase the herd of creatures in front of us.

-No matter how many books you have, the important thing is how good they are..

-How do you help the problems get lighter and lighter if all you do is regret them?

-When you test yourself with a calm mind, you are able to rob misfortune of its strength and its burden..

-It is not relevant what you wear, but how you are able to bear it.

-He who is capable of surrendering to empty fears, gains real fears.

-Sometimes living becomes an act of bravery..

-We rest dissatisfied with what we have because we aspire to more than we deserve.

-The greatest blessings humanity has are within us and within our grasp.

-A wise man is satisfied with his luck regardless of what it is, the difference is that the wise man never wants what he does not have.

-It is wiser to conquer our pain than to try to deceive it.

-What need is there to cry before any circumstance of life?

-A story is quite similar to what life is like. The important thing is not how long it lasts, but how good it is.

-Enjoy the charms of the present in such a way that you are incapable of harming the future.

-You should not necessarily act mortal to everything you fear and immortal to everything you desire.

-Those who perceive religion as true, the wise as false, and rulers as useful are ordinary people..

-The power generated by the mind can be invincible.

-Become a partner with people who help you be better.

-Only time is able to heal what reason cannot do.

-A life is complete as long as it is aligned with its own nature.

-Things are not difficult because we dare not venture. They are because we usually don't dare to venture into things that are difficult..

-Every different beginning comes from the end of some new beginning.

-Currently, anyone who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary..

-It is not the man who has very little, but the man who yearns to have more who is really poor..

-Two elements must be eliminated once and for all: the fear of future suffering and the memory of past suffering..

-We must wait for time to pass for it to reveal the truth.

-There is no easy path from the earth to the stars.

-The time will come when frequent research over many years will bring to light things that are currently hidden..

-A single life, although entirely dedicated to heaven, will not be enough to develop knowledge.

-Immediately start living and try to count each day separately.

-Until we start living without them, we don't realize how unnecessary some things are..

-On many occasions, you live as if you were destined to live forever, without reflecting on your fragility and how much time has passed without paying the slightest bit of attention.

-You waste time like you draw it from a plentiful supply.

-Not doing things can become the greatest waste of life because it takes every day as it comes and denies you the present, promising the future.

-The biggest obstacle we face is expectation, which is constantly dependent on tomorrow, and aggressively loses today.

-Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is like the wind and the rain. Life is matter, earth and everything that is beyond eternity.

-In war, when a commander is devoid of reason and perspective, he understands that the subordination of arms does not deserve victory..

-Many discoveries are reserved for the future, when the memory of us will have been erased..


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