Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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.

Life is warfare.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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.