Seneca The Younger

Quotes

• “Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands...”
• “If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suu...”
• “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right...”
• “If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the ...”
• “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”
• “What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.”
• “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
• “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
• “He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”
• “Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.”
• “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor”
• “Don't stumble over something behind you.”
• “Luck never made a man wise.”
• “While you teach, you learn.”