Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.