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Seneca quotes, quotations, sayings

Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
 1005    
Life is warfare.
Seneca
 1004    
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca
 1004    
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Seneca
 1004    
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca
 1004    
If you wish to be loved; Love!
Seneca
 1004    
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Seneca
 1004    
Where the fear is, happiness is not.
Seneca
 1004    
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
Seneca
 1004    
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
 1004    
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
 1004    
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Seneca
 1004    
When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Seneca
 1004    
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca
 1004    
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
Seneca
 1004    
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Seneca
 1004    
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Seneca
 1004    
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Seneca
 1004    
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca
 1004    
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Seneca
 1004    
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
Seneca
 1004    
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Seneca
 1004    
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca
 1004    
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
 1004    
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca
 1004    
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
 1004    
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca
 1004    
It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
 1004    
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Seneca
 1004    
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca
 1004    
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Seneca
 1004    
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Seneca
 1004    
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca
 1004    
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Seneca
 1004    
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca
 1004    
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
 1004    
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Seneca
 1004    
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca
 1004    
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Seneca
 1004    
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca
 1004    
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Seneca
 1004    
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca
 1004    
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Seneca
 1004    
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Seneca
 1004    
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Seneca
 1004    
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca
 1004    
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Seneca
 1004    
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
 1004    
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
Seneca
 1004    
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Seneca
 1004    


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