I leave you the best phrases of Lucio Anneo Seneca, in Latin Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) Roman philosopher, politician, orator and writer known for his works of a moralistic nature.
You may also be interested in these quotes from philosophers, these from Plato or these from Aristotle.
-If a man does not know to which port he is sailing, he will never have a favorable wind.
-He who is brave is free.
-We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
-Life is like a play: the length does not matter, but the excellence of the performance.
-Involve yourself with people who can make you better.
-Ignorance is the cause of fear.
-Wealth is the slave of the wise man. The master of the fool.
-The most powerful is the one you have in your own power.
-We do not learn in school, but in life.
-As long as you live, keep learning to live.
-There is no genius without a touch of madness.
-What is harder than rock? What is smoother than water? However, hard rocks are pierced by water.
-Consider a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
-What man can you show me to put some value in his time, to count the value of each day, to understand that he is dying every day?
-It is more civilized to make fun of life than to mourn it.
-To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
-No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, because he is not allowed to prove himself.
-While we wait for life, life passes.
-Only time can heal what reason cannot.
-It is not the one who has little who is poor, but who yearns for more.
-All cruelty arises from weakness.
-Sometimes even living is an act of courage.
- Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Difficulties strengthen the mind, as work strengthens the body.
-Hold on to your youthful enthusiasm, you will be able to use it better when you are older.
-I will never be ashamed to quote a bad author if his argument is good.
-The power of the mind is to be unconquerable.
-The life we receive is not short, but we do it that way; we are not under-supplied, but we waste what we have.
-No man was wise by chance.
-The one who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary.
-The Sun also shines on the wicked.
-A sword never kills anyone; It is a tool in the hand of the murderer.
-If you really want to escape from the things that harass you, what you need is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person.
-Fate leads the willing and drags the reluctant.
-There will come a time when our descendants will be surprised that we do not know the things that are so obvious to them.
-Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
-Wishing to be well is a part of being well.
-Errar is human, but persisting in error is diabolical.
-The one who hurt you was stronger or weaker than you. If it is weaker, leave it; if it's stronger, take care of yourself.
-If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; If you live by what others think, you will never be rich.
-Life is long, if you know how to live it.
-He who forgives the bad hurts the good.
-It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-With lessons, it is difficult to lead people to kindness, but it is easy to do it by example.
-Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
-I was not born for a corner; the whole world is my homeland.
-The other side must also be heard.
-The true happiness is to understand our duties towards God and man.
-The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
-The best ideas are common property.
-Beyond all things, there is the sea.
-It is the quality, more than the quantity, that matters.
-Acquire every day something that strengthens you against poverty, against death, and against other misfortunes.
-Make sure of only one thing before the day of your death arrives, that your faults die before you.
-Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
-Of course, it is better to know useless things than to know nothing.
-Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
-Light penalties are loquacious, but big ones are stupid.
-Put aside all obstacles and give up your time to achieve a healthy mind.
-If we could be satisfied with something, we should have been satisfied a long time ago.
-Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
- Drunkenness is nothing more than voluntary madness.
-There is no enjoyment in owning anything valuable unless you have someone to share it with.
-It is not that we have little time, it is that we waste a lot.
-Fidelity bought with money can be destroyed by money itself.
-For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their problems, it only changes them.
-It is something very great to know the station for speech and the station for silence.
-A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm gets praise, but when her total appearance diverts the admiration of the individual parts of her body.
-One of the most beautiful characteristics of a true friendship is understanding and being understood.
-True tranquility is enjoying the present, without having an anxious dependence on the future.
-Death is the deepest desire of some, the consolation of many and the end that corresponds to all.
-We are usually more scared than injured.
-The leisure time without books is the death and burial of every man who is alive.
-Love in its purest essence means spiritual fire.
-The greatest existing remedy for anger is patience.
-Anger, if not restrained little by little, often becomes something considerably harmful to us.
-If someone tells you that the best life of all is the one where you navigate the sea and then adds that you should not navigate in a sea where shipwrecks are common, I conclude that this man, although he praises navigation, really prohibits me from launching my boat.
-Wealth is always the slave of a wise man, when the master is a fool.
-The purpose of a gift does not consist in what is done or given, but in the intention of the person who makes it.
-They completely wasted the day by waiting for the night, and in the same way at night with fear of dawn.
-The future as a whole is in uncertainty, therefore, try to live immediately.
-Where any human being is, there is a probability that there is goodness.
-All that man who is in charge of anticipating the arrival of conflicts, takes power away from problems when they just arrive.
-Silence is a teaching through the many sufferings of life.
-We should not, like sheep, chase the herd of creatures in front of us.
-No matter how many books you have, the important thing is how good they are.
-How do you help the problems become lighter and lighter if all you do is regret them?
-When you prove yourself with a calm mind, you are capable of robbing misfortune of its strength and its burden.
-It is not relevant what you wear, but how you are able to bear it.
-He who is capable of surrendering to empty fears, gains real fears.
-Even sometimes living becomes an act of courage.
-We rest unsatisfied with what we have because we aspire more than we deserve.
-The greatest blessings that humanity has are within us and within our reach.
-A wise man is satisfied with his luck regardless of what it is, the difference is that the wise man never wants what he does not have.
-It is more prudent to conquer our pain than to try to deceive it.
-What need is there to cry before any circumstance of life?
-A story is quite similar to what life is like. The important thing is not how long it lasts, but how good it is.
-Enjoy the charms of the present in such a way that you are incapable of harming the future.
-Hold on to all your youthful follies, later you can use them better.
-You should not necessarily act mortal before everything you fear and immortal before everything you desire.
-Those who perceive religion as true, the wise as false and rulers as useful, are ordinary people.
-It is power that the mind generates can be invincible.
-Become a partner of people who help you to be better.
-Only time is capable of healing what reason cannot do.
-A life is complete as long as it is aligned with its own nature..
-Things are not difficult because we do not dare to venture. They are because we usually don't dare to venture into things that are difficult.
-Each different beginning comes from the end of some new beginning.
-Currently, anyone who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary.
-It is not the man who has very little, but the man who yearns to have more who is really poor.
-Two elements must be eliminated once and for all: the fear of future suffering and the memory of past suffering.
-We must wait for time to pass for him to reveal the truth.
-There is no easy path from the earth to the stars.
-The time will come when frequent research over many years will bring to light things that are currently hidden.
-A single life, although entirely dedicated to heaven, will not be enough to develop knowledge.
-Start living immediately and try to count each day separately.
-Until we begin to live without them, we do not realize how unnecessary some things are.
-On many occasions, you live as if you were destined to live forever, without reflecting on your fragility and how much time has passed without paying the slightest bit of attention.
-You waste time as if you took it from a plentiful supply.
-Not doing things can become the greatest waste of life because it takes every day as it comes and denies the present, promising the future.
-The biggest obstacle that is presented to us is the expectation, which constantly depends on tomorrow, and aggressively loses today.
-Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is like the wind and the rain. Life is matter, earth and everything that is beyond eternity.
-In war, when a commander is devoid of reason and perspective, he understands that the subordination of arms does not deserve victory.
-Many discoveries are reserved for the future, when the memory of us will have been erased.