Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Seneca
Life is warfare.
Seneca
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Seneca
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Seneca
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Seneca
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Seneca
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Seneca
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Seneca
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.