Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art nature: "All art is but imitation of nature."
Quote link.: "All cruelty springs from weakness."
Quote link.: "All things are cause for either laughter or weeping."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right mind: "An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death man life: "Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae"
Quote link.: "A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life good: "As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65"
Quote link. Other quotes about: day live life: "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work god man evil: "Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god nature: "Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something love: "Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear: "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world nothing living nature dead creative: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend time man person friends: "Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
Quote link.: "Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium"
Quote link.: "Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope friend never look: "He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."
Quote link.: "He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens"
Quote link.: "He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power light: "He who has great power should use it lightly."
Quote link.: "He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man: "If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world never nature rich: "If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom rest: "If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love wish: "If you wished to be loved, love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man good: "In every good man a God doth dwell."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man book good: "It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die living evil: "It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."
Quote link.: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest: "It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born: "It is well to be born either a king or a fool."
Quote link.: "Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech life: "Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books death man book: "Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy god living: "Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy."
Quote link.: "Malice drinks one half of its own poison."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power human evil: "No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life: "No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise: "No man ever became wise by chance."
Quote link.: "Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find mind: "Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend understand friends: "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live nature: "Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people wise rule: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science: "Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live courage: "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light: "That grief is light which can take counsel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth heaven: "The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ideas: "The best ideas are common property."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man: "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger: "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Quote link.: "The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man pain success mind wish: "The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind: "The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company."
Quote link.: "There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium"
Quote link.: "There is no genius free from some tincture of madness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find nothing mind: "There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man life understand future: "The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future."
Quote link.: "This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium"
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi"
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth discover: "Time discovers truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "Time heals what reason cannot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: greed nature: "To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus"
Quote link.: "To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish: "To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."
Quote link.: "We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right wise: "We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "We learn not in the school, but in life."
Quote link.: "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."
Quote link.: "Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy god: "Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man dreams sleep sin: "Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams."

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