“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.”
“Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.”
“Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.”
“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.”
“Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.”
“They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.”
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.”
“Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.”
“How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?”
“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
“Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.”
“Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.”
“Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.”