Seneca the Younger Quotes

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt

~ Seneca the Younger

Translates as "The fates lead the willing and drag the unwilling"

The fates lead the willing and drag the unwilling.

~ Seneca the Younger

Translated from Latin "ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt"

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Seneca the Younger

The quote appears to be misattributed and the source is not clear.

Learning Quotes Luck Quotes Lucky Quotes

His head was turned by too great success.

~ Seneca the Younger

Moral letters to Lucilius, letter 114

Death either annihilates us or strips us bare. If we are then released, there remains the better part, after the burden has been withdrawn; if we are annihilated, nothing remains; good and bad are alike removed.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

If you would put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen will certainly happen in any event; whatever the trouble may be, measure it in your own mind, and estimate the amount of your fear.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

"I shall die," you say; you mean to say "I shall cease to run the risk of sickness; I shall cease to run the risk of imprisonment; I shall cease to run the risk of death."

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

It is not the last drop that empties the waterclock, but all that has previously flowed out.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

It is not the last drop that empties the water-clock, but all that which previously has flowed out; similarly, the final hour when we cease to exist does not of itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

Knowledge Quotes Nature Quotes

When your enemy threatens, listen unconcernedly.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

Why, indeed, is it necessary to summon trouble, – which must be endured soon enough when it has once arrived, or to anticipate trouble and ruin the present through fear of the future? It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

~ Seneca the Younger

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, On Despising Death

A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

~ Seneca the Younger

Ad Lucilium epistulae morales

Soul Quotes Ability Quotes

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; that you indulge the body only as far as is needful for good health.

~ Seneca the Younger

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

Life Quotes Health Quotes

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

~ Seneca the Younger

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

Desire Quotes Progress Quotes

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

~ Seneca the Younger

A hated government does not long survive.

~ Seneca the Younger

Politics Quotes Survival Quotes Government Quotes

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

~ Seneca the Younger

Happiness Quotes

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

~ Seneca the Younger