Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

If you wished to be loved, love.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.