Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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One must steer, not talk.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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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.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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Time discovers truth.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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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.