Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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.

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.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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.

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.