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30 Seneca Quotes to Help You Live a Fulfilling and Worthwhile Life

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1. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing.

~ Seneca

2. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Seneca

3. All cruelty springs from weakness.

~ Seneca

4. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~ Seneca

5. Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.

~ Seneca

6. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

~ Seneca

7. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

~ Seneca

8. Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?

~ Seneca

9. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

~ Seneca

10. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

~ Seneca

11. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

~ Seneca

12. Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

~ Seneca

13. Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.

~ Seneca

14. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

~ Seneca

15. You want to live but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying and tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

~ Seneca

16. Time heals what reason cannot.

~ Seneca

17. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

~ Seneca

18. Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.

~ Seneca

19. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

~ Seneca

20. If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

~ Seneca

21. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

~ Seneca

22. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

~ Seneca

23. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

~ Seneca

24. It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

~ Seneca

25. If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

~ Seneca

26. He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

~ Seneca

27. Wealth is the slave of the wise. The master of the fool.

~ Seneca

28. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

~ Seneca

29. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

~ Seneca

30. Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

~ Seneca

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