Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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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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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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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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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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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.
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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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If you judge, investigate.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.