Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.