If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA, Seneca's Morals
He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Luck knows no limits.
SENECA, Oedipus
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
We live as it were by chance, and by chance we are governed.
SENECA, Seneca's Morals
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA, Letters
He who is brave is free.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
He whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Loyalty gives traitors opportunity.
SENECA, Oedipus
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Those with false fears deserve real ones.
SENECA, Oedipus
Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
SENECA, Seneca's Morals
A cruel reign is disordered and hidden in darkness, and while all shake with terror at the sudden explosions, not even he who caused all this disturbance escapes unharmed.
SENECA, "On Clemency", Minor Dialogues: Together with the Dialogue on Clemency
The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.
SENECA, Oedipus
There are many diversities of vice; but it is one never-failing effect of it, to live displeased and discontented.
SENECA, attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs
Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at tomorrow.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.
SENECA, Thyestes
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively; strive to get clear notions about all; give up no science entirely, for science is but one.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
SENECA, Epistolae Ad Lucilium
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
SENECA, Oedipus
If thou would estimate thyself, put away wealth, land, honors; scrutinize thyself within.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.
SENECA, Thyestes
Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
SENECA, Hippolytus
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, Hercules Furens
Neither was a law able to be imposed on the falling rain, that they should not water and overflow the fields of the wicked and unjust.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
That man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
SENECA, Letters from a Stoic
Reputation is a great inheritance.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
He always reflects concerning the quality, and not the quantity, of his life. As soon as there are many events in his life that give him trouble and disturb his peace of mind, he sets himself free.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, Moral letters to Lucilius
Retirement without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
Respect of parents curbs the spirit and restrains vices.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
SENECA, De Providentia
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
SENECA, Hercules Oetaeus
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach.
SENECA, Letters from a Stoic
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
SENECA, De Beneficiis
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA, Moral Essays
It matters not whether you place the sick man on a wooden bed or one of gold; wherever you lay him, he carries his disease along with him.
SENECA, attributed, Day's Collacon
This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.
SENECA, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER, De Brevitate Vitae
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the gift is acknowledged; it is the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that is weighed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice to itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA, Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
