Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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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.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.