English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes about life

Roman Statesman

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes in french
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it..."
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of..."
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "We learn not in the school, but in life."
We learn not in the school, but in life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life,..."
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament..."
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "While we wait for life, life passes"
While we wait for life, life passes Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Popular Author

Related Authors