A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
All art is but imitation of nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Do everything as in the eye of another.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
For greed all nature is too little.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
He who has great power should use it lightly.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
If you would judge, understand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Life is warfare.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
One crime has to be concealed by another.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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 Quote
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Time discovers truth.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
What is true belongs to me!
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
