Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

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.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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

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

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

Time discovers truth.

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.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

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

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.