Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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