"Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Seneca the Younger quotes (page 39 of 57)
1.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still."
Read quote
3 likes
"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature."
Read quote
3 likes
"While we teach, we learn."
Read quote
3 likes
"In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work."
Read quote
3 likes
"Whatever begins, also ends."
Read quote
3 likes
"Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore."
Read quote
3 likes
"Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance."
Read quote
3 likes
"We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her."
Read quote
3 likes
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find."
Read quote
3 likes
"A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth."
Read quote
3 likes
"As the world leads we follow."
Read quote
3 likes
"It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place."
Read quote
3 likes
"We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves."
Read quote
3 likes
"Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief."
Read quote
3 likes
"The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude."
Read quote
3 likes
"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."
Read quote
3 likes
"Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just."
Read quote
3 likes