Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes And Sayings

Believe Me, That Was A Happy Age, Before The Days Of Architects, Before The Days Of Builders.

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.

What Nature Requires Is Obtainable, And Within Easy Reach. It Is For The Superfluous We Sweat.

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.

It Is The Superfluous Things For Which Men Sweat, - Superfluous Things That Wear Our Togas Theadbare, That Force Us To Grow Old In Camp, That Dash Us Upon Foreign Shores.

The Bravest Sight In The World Is To See A Great Man Struggling Against Adversity.

True Praise Comes Often Even To The Lowly; False Praise Only To The Strong.

It Is More Fitting For A Man To Laugh At Life Than To Lament Over It.

The Good Things Of Prosperity Are To Be Wished; But The Good Things That Belong To Adversity Are To Be Admired.

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.

Night Brings Our Troubles To The Light, Rather Than Banishes Them.

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.

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?

Anger Is Like Those Ruins Which Smash Themselves On What They Fall.

What Difference Does It Make How Much You Have? What You Do Not Have Amounts To Much More.

The Mind Unlearns With Difficulty What It Has Long Learned.

So Live With Men As If God Saw You And Speak To God, As If Men Heard You.

Constant Exposure To Dangers Will Breed Contempt For Them.

We Often Want One Thing And Pray For Another, Not Telling The Truth Even To The Gods.

May Be Is Very Well, But Must Is The Master. It Is My Duty To Show Justice Without Recompense.

Time Discovers Truth.

I Shall Never Be Ashamed Of Citing A Bad Author If The Line Is Good.

When An Author Is Too Meticulous About His Style, You May Presume That His Mind Is Frivolous And His Content Flimsy.

Be Wary Of The Man Who Urges An Action In Which He Himself Incurs No Risk.

A Great Mind Becomes A Great Fortune.

He Who Has Great Power Should Use It Lightly.

The First And Greatest Punishment Of The Sinner Is The Conscience Of Sin.

Slavery Takes Hold Of Few, But Many Take Hold Of Slavery.

Success Is Not Greedy, As People Think, But Insignificant. That Is Why It Satisfies Nobody.