Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

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.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.