Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wished to be loved, love.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For greed all nature is too little.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All art is but imitation of nature.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who has great power should use it lightly.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

~ 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 for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

~ 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 realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is brave is free.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca