Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

No man was ever wise by chance.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.