Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes And Sayings

It Is Quality Rather Than Quantity That Matters.

Life's Like A Play: It's Not The Length, But The Excellence Of The Acting That Matters.

A Happy Life Is One Which Is In Accordance With Its Own Nature.

Nothing Is So Wretched Or Foolish As To Anticipate Misfortunes. What Madness Is It To Be Expecting Evil Before It Comes.

True Happiness Is... To Enjoy The Present, Without Anxious Dependence Upon The Future.

A Person's Fears Are Lighter When The Danger Is At Hand.

For Greed All Nature Is Too Little.

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.

If A Man Knows Not What Harbor He Seeks, Any Wind Is The Right Wind.

It Makes A Great Deal Of Difference Whether One Wills Not To Sin Or Has Not The Knowledge To Sin.

The Wish For Healing Has Always Been Half Of Health.

A Gem Cannot Be Polished Without Friction, Nor A Man Perfected Without Trials.

All Art Is But Imitation Of Nature.

A Sword Never Kills Anybody; It Is A Tool In The Killer's Hand.

If One Does Not Know To Which Port One Is Sailing, No Wind Is Favorable.

While We Are Postponing, Life Speeds By.

It Is Not Because Things Are Difficult That We Do Not Dare, It Is Because We Do Not Dare That They Are Difficult.

We Are More Often Frightened Than Hurt; And We Suffer More From Imagination Than From Reality.

Sometimes Even To Live Is An Act Of Courage.

It Is Better, Of Course, To Know Useless Things Than To Know Nothing.

The Less We Deserve Good Fortune, The More We Hope For It.

We Should Give As We Would Receive, Cheerfully, Quickly, And Without Hesitation; For There Is No Grace In A Benefit That Sticks To The Fingers.

It Is A Rough Road That Leads To The Heights Of Greatness.

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.

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.

He Who Is Brave Is Free.

I Don't Trust Liberals, I Trust Conservatives.

Consider, When You Are Enraged At Any One, What You Would Probably Think If He Should Die During The Dispute.

It Is Not The Man Who Has Too Little, But The Man Who Craves More, That Is Poor.

The Pressure Of Adversity Does Not Affect The Mind Of The Brave Man... It Is More Powerful Than External Circumstances.

It Is True Greatness To Have In One The Frailty Of A Man And The Security Of A God.

As Long As You Live, Keep Learning How To Live.

It Is The Sign Of A Great Mind To Dislike Greatness, And To Prefer Things In Measure To Things In Excess.

Luck Is A Matter Of Preparation Meeting Opportunity.

A Quarrel Is Quickly Settled When Deserted By One Party; There Is No Battle Unless There Be Two.

Crime When It Succeeds Is Called Virtue.

Brave Men Rejoice In Adversity, Just As Brave Soldiers Triumph In War.

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.

There Is As Much Greatness Of Mind In Acknowledging A Good Turn, As In Doing It.

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.

Modesty Forbids What The Law Does Not.

He Who Dreads Hostility Too Much Is Unfit To Rule.

The First Step In A Person's Salvation Is Knowledge Of Their Sin.

Most Powerful Is He Who Has Himself In His Own Power.

The Display Of Grief Makes More Demands Than Grief Itself. How Few Men Are Sad In Their Own Company.

Every Guilty Person Is His Own Hangman.

The Greatest Remedy For Anger Is Delay.

There Is No Person So Severely Punished, As Those Who Subject Themselves To The Whip Of Their Own Remorse.

When I Think Over What I Have Said, I Envy Dumb People.

Success Consecrates The Most Offensive Crimes.