Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

If you would judge, understand.

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.

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

If you judge, investigate.

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.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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.

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

For greed all nature is too little.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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