Seneca Quotes

Seneca  (4BC-65AD) [Lucius Annaeus Seneca] Spanish-born Roman Statesman, Philosopher, Moralist

These Seneca quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [La., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu] - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [La., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere] - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Chance makes a plaything of a man's life. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]