Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes


125 quotes:

"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"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."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes
"What is true belongs to me!"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Time discovered truth."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Time And Time Management Quotes
"What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Suffering Quotes
"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Suffering Quotes
"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Speakers And Speaking Quotes
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Sin Quotes
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Sin Quotes
"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Service Quotes
"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Security Quotes
"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Safety Quotes
"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."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Roman Statesman Quotes
"When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Speakers And Speaking Quotes Roman Statesman Quotes
"The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Riches Quotes
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Quotes Quotes
"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Every guilty person is his own hangman."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes

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