Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes And Sayings

The Deferring Of Anger Is The Best Antidote To Anger.

One Crime Has To Be Concealed By Another.

Death Is The Wish Of Some, The Relief Of Many, And The End Of All.

Do Everything As In The Eye Of Another.

A Punishment To Some, To Some A Gift, And To Many A Favor.

If You Judge, Investigate.

If You Would Judge, Understand.

If You Wished To Be Loved, Love.

To Keep Oneself Safe Does Not Mean To Bury Oneself.

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.

Do Not Ask For What You Will Wish You Had Not Got.

That Which Is Given With Pride And Ostentation Is Rather An Ambition Than A Bounty.

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.

Why Do I Not Seek Some Real Good; One Which I Could Feel, Not One Which I Could Display?

A Large Part Of Mankind Is Angry Not With The Sins, But With The Sinners.

A Man Who Suffers Before It Is Necessary, Suffers More Than Is Necessary.

Love In Its Essence Is Spiritual Fire.

Poverty Wants Some, Luxury Many, And Avarice All Things.

For Many Men, The Acquisition Of Wealth Does Not End Their Troubles, It Only Changes Them.

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.

One Must Steer, Not Talk.

Light Troubles Speak; The Weighty Are Struck Dumb.

See How Many Are Better Off Than You Are, But Consider How Many Are Worse.

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.

Our Care Should Not Be To Have Lived Long As To Have Lived Enough.

Whatever Fortune Has Raised To A Height, She Has Raised Only To Cast It Down.

Call It Nature, Fate, Fortune; All These Are Names Of The One And Selfsame God.

Every Sin Is The Result Of A Collaboration.

A Great Fortune Is A Great Slavery.

Religion Is Regarded By The Common People As True, By The Wise As False, And By The Rulers As Useful.

Every Man Prefers Belief To The Exercise Of Judgment.

Not How Long, But How Well You Have Lived Is The Main Thing.

Life Is Warfare.

There Is No Delight In Owning Anything Unshared.

He Has Committed The Crime Who Profits By It.

Whenever The Speech Is Corrupted So Is The Mind.

Whatever Is Well Said By Another, Is Mine.

The Approach Of Liberty Makes Even An Old Man Brave.

You Must Live For Another If You Wish To Live For Yourself.

Everywhere Is Nowhere. When A Person Spends All His Time In Foreign Travel, He Ends By Having Many Acquaintances, But No Friends.

No Man Was Ever Wise By Chance.

All Cruelty Springs From Weakness.

He Who Does Not Prevent A Crime When He Can, Encourages It.

Expecting Is The Greatest Impediment To Living. In Anticipation Of Tomorrow, It Loses Today.

We Should Every Night Call Ourselves To An Account: What Infirmity Have I Mastered Today? What Passions Opposed? What Temptation Resisted? What Virtue Acquired? Our Vices Will Abate Of Themselves If They Be Brought Every Day To The Shrift.

The Things Hardest To Bear Are Sweetest To Remember.

A Gift Consists Not In What Is Done Or Given, But In The Intention Of The Giver Or Doer.

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.

Even After A Bad Harvest There Must Be Sowing.

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.