Seneca's best quotes
The top 3 according to 10 votes from people: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. · You need a change of soul, not a change of climate. · The reward of a good deed is to have done it.. (Updated Aug 7, 2019.)
The lines by the Stoic philosopher from Córdoba that are still quoted two thousand years later, from the Letters to Lucilius, On the Shortness of Life and his tragedies, with the work each comes from.
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Top 12
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Letters to Lucilius, 104.
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You need a change of soul, not a change of climate.
Letters to Lucilius, 28: travel doesn't cure what you carry inside.
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The reward of a good deed is to have done it.
Letters to Lucilius, 81.
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
On the Shortness of Life, I.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
Magna servitus est magna fortuna. Consolation to Polybius.
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He who profits by the crime is its author.
Cui prodest scelus, is fecit. Medea.
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There has never been a great genius without a touch of madness.
On Tranquillity of Mind, quoting Aristotle.
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Life is divided into three periods: past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future doubtful, the past certain.
On the Shortness of Life, X.
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You will cease to fear when you cease to hope.
Letters to Lucilius, 5, quoting Hecato.
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While we are among human beings, let us practise humanity.
On Anger, III.
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We learn by teaching.
Docendo discimus, Letters to Lucilius, 7.
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No one can wear a mask for long.
On Clemency, I.
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