Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

He who is brave is free.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

All art is but imitation of nature.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

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

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

If you would judge, understand.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

If you judge, investigate.