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The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
— Seneca The Younger
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
— Seneca The Younger
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
— Seneca The Elder
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
— Seneca The Younger
Simple is the language of truth.
— Seneca The Younger
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
— Seneca The Younger
Man is a reasoning Animal.
— Seneca The Younger
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
— Seneca The Younger
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
— Seneca The Younger
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
— Seneca The Younger
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
— Seneca The Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
— Seneca The Younger
The Germans, a race eager for war.
— Seneca The Younger
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
— Seneca The Younger
People do not die - they kill themselves.
— Seneca The Younger
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
— Seneca The Younger
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
— Seneca The Younger
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds ...
— Seneca The Younger
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
— Seneca The Younger
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
— Seneca The Younger
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
— Seneca The Younger
Know thyself; this is the great object.
— Seneca The Younger
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
— Seneca The Younger
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
— Seneca The Younger
What you think is the summit is only a step up
— Seneca The Younger
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
— Seneca The Younger
Everything may happen.
— Seneca The Younger
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
— Seneca The Younger
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
While we teach, we learn.
— Seneca.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
— Seneca The Younger
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
— Seneca The Younger
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
— Seneca The Younger
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
— Seneca The Younger
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
— Seneca The Elder
It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Seneca The Younger
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
— Seneca The Younger
To be everywhere is to be nowhere. - SENECA
— Chris Bailey
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
— Seneca The Younger
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
— Seneca The Younger
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
— Seneca The Younger
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
— Seneca The Younger
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
— Seneca The Younger
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
— Seneca The Younger
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
— Seneca The Younger
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca The Younger
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
— Seneca The Younger
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
— Seneca The Younger
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
— Seneca The Younger
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
— Seneca The Younger
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
— Seneca The Younger
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
— Seneca The Younger
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
— Seneca The Younger
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
— Seneca The Younger
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
— Seneca The Younger
why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?
— Seneca.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
— Seneca The Younger
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
— Seneca The Younger
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
— Robert A. Burton
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
— Seneca The Younger
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every change of place becomes a delight.
— Seneca The Younger
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
— Seneca The Younger
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
— Seneca The Younger
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
— Seneca The Younger
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
— Seneca The Elder
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
— Frederic William Farrar
If you judge, investigate.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca