Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD · Roman
About Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Stoic philosopher, dramatist, and advisor to Emperor Nero. His letters and essays — particularly Letters to Lucilius and On the Shortness of Life — offer practical wisdom on how to live meaningfully amid wealth, power, and inevitable death. Seneca believed that life is long enough if we spend it wisely, and that tranquility comes from mastering our desires rather than fulfilling them. His accessible prose style has made Stoic philosophy available to general readers for two millennia.
Quotes by Seneca
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."