Seneca 50 Top Insightful Audio Quotes, Stoic Sayings Unpredictability, Shortness of Life

“ You should live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy, as keep to yourself. ” – Seneca

“ The part of life we really live is small—for all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. ” – Seneca

“ It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it. ” – Seneca

“ The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. ” – Seneca

“ Whatever can happen at any time can happen today. ” – Seneca

“ Of this one thing, make sure against your dying day that your faults die before you do. ” – 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

“ It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ” – Seneca

“ Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb. ” – Seneca

“ To be everywhere is to be nowhere. ” – Seneca

“ The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them. ” – Seneca

“ The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. ” – Seneca

“ What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life. ” – Seneca

“ While we are postponing, life speeds by. ” – Seneca

“ All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straight away. ” – Seneca

“ Hurry up and live. ” – Seneca

“ How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns. ” – Seneca

“ So it is—we are not given a short life, but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied, but wasteful of it. ” – Seneca

“ It’s not years nor days, but the mind that determines that we’ve lived enough. ” – Seneca

“ Nothing is ours, except time. ” – Seneca

“ It is not what you endure that matters, but how you endure it. ” – Seneca

“ It is uncertain where death will await you—expect it everywhere. ” – Seneca

“ Philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak. ” – Seneca

“ Regard a friend as loyal and you will make him loyal. ” – Seneca

“ To love, then, is only in the power of the wise. ” – Seneca

“ To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ” – Seneca

“ Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ” – Seneca

“ He who spares the wicked injures the good. ” – Seneca

“ The other side shall be heard as well. ” – Seneca

“ We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful. ” – Seneca

“ No man was ever wise by chance. ” – Seneca

“ Associate with people who are likely to improve you. ” – Seneca

“ He suffers more than necessary who suffers before it is necessary. ” – Seneca

“ I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ” – Seneca

“ Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ” – Seneca

“ A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. ” – Seneca

“ Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. ” – Seneca

“ We learn not in school, but in life. ” – Seneca

“ There is no genius without a touch of madness. ” – Seneca

“ I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. ” – Seneca

“ Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ” – Seneca

“ Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. ” – Seneca

“ It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ” – Seneca

“ To win true freedom, you must be a slave to philosophy. ” – Seneca

“ Beyond all things is the sea. ” – Seneca

“ The best ideas are common property. ” – Seneca

“ It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. ” – Seneca

“ Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. ” – Seneca

“ I will storm the gods, and shake the universe. ” – Seneca