Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We learn not in the school, but in life.
— Seneca.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you would judge, understand.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do everything as in the eye of another.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ... if one follows patterns.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is, happiness is not.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you wished to be loved, love.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
— Seneca.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One must steer, not talk.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you judge, investigate.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who has great power should use it lightly.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What is true belongs to me!
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Time discovers truth.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For greed all nature is too little.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca