Quotes by Seneca

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. . (Seneca)

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. (Seneca)

A great fortune is a great slavery. (Seneca)

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Seneca)

All art is an imitation of nature. (Seneca)

All art is but imitation of nature. (Seneca)

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. (Seneca)

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. (Seneca)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it. (Seneca)

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a mans life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still. (Seneca)