“To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.”
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”
“The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
“It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.”
“This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”
“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
“We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”