Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca