Top 179 Quotes & Sayings by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
Last updated on September 14, 2024.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
For greed all nature is too little.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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.
He who is brave is free.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Time discovers truth.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
No man was ever wise by chance.
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.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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