Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

"As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still."

"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor."

"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."

"Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity"

"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."

"There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer."

"Where the fear is, happiness is not."

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

"The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling."

"Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order."

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

"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."

"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"A great mind becomes a great fortune."

"Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms."

"No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself."

"No one is laughable who laughs at himself."

"If you judge, investigate."