Seneca Browse All Authors Top 108 quotes by Seneca There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Seneca He who spares the wicked injures the good. Seneca While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. Seneca Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. Seneca If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca No one can wear a mask for very long. Seneca The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. Seneca We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us. Seneca We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Seneca You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. Seneca To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Seneca Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. Translated: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. Seneca The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. Seneca It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. Seneca If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca
