Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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 ... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, ... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Life is warfare." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"If you wished to be loved, love." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is quality rather than quantity that matters." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Every guilty person is his own hangman." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Every reign must submit to a greater reign." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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 rea... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Life, if well lived, is long enough." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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
"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... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca