Link: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Seneca

Quotes:

  • Claim yourself for yourself.

  • What new thing is it then for a man to die, whose whole life is nothing else but a journey to death?

  • I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

  • Hold every hour within your grasp.

  • Manliness gains much strength by being challenged.

  • Virtue is not to be worshipped with incense or garlands but with sweat and blood.

  • Happiness must depend on us, and not us on it.

  • There is pleasure in being in one’s own company when one has made himself worth enjoying.

  • The man who can say on arising every morning, “I have lived,” is the happiest.