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Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes (94) He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Strength What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Diet We all sorely complain of the shortness of time and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all or in doing nothing to the purpose or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end of them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Time It is proof of a bad cause when it is appluaded by the mob. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Mob As the soil however rich it may be cannot be productive without cultivation so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Culture There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Star A great fortune is a great slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Fortune Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narrat qui accepit Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Work Calamity is virtues opportunity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Calamities As long as you live keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Learn True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes and like people in the dark fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Happiness It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Know We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Vice To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts happy in adversity composed in a tumult and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: God All art is but imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Art No man ever became wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Imitation A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Humor 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 Category: Travel If wisdom were offered me with this restriction that I should keep it close and not communicate it I would refuse the gift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Wisdom It is with life as with a playit matters not how long the action is spun out but how good the acting is. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Life Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Enough There is nothing so disagreeable that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Patience Where silence is not allowed what then is permissible? Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Unsorted Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Desire Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Power Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Alcohol Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Modesty Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Housework To wish well is part of becoming well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Sick Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Memory It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do so. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Fidelity Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Anger There is no delight in owning anything unshared. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Share Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Wish When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Direction It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Truth Let us say what we feel and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Speak The appearances of things are deceptive. Fallaces sunt rerum species Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Appearance What with our hooks snares nets and dogs we are at war with all living creatures and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Animals Death: A punishment to some to some a gift and to many a favor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Death There is no power greater than true affection. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Affection Not he who has little but he who wishes for more is poor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Charity While we are postponing life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Delay Even while they teach men learn. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Teach The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a mans ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Mind There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Potential Do the best you can ... enjoy the present ... rest satisfied with what you have. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Present The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Eternity The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity and patient courage in adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Abstinence Other mens sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Others It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Church Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Cowardice We are mad not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Madness A good mind possesses a kingdom. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Intellect An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Will Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage or my house when I propose to take a residence so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Poetry Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Night Conversation has a kind of charm about it an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Conversation No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Sin People do not care how nobly they live only how long despite the fact that it is within everyones reach to live nobly but within no ones reach to live long. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Age What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that struggles. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Choice Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Danger Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Brave He who boasts of his descent praises the deeds of another. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Ancestors There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care can not accomplish. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Accomplishment A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Quarrels It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Greatness He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Dog It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Laugh There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Courage Nothing is more common than for great thieves to ride in triumph when small ones are punished. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Guilt Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Cost Leisure without literature is death or rather the burial of a living man Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Book The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Birth Everything may happen. Omnio fieri possent Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Everything If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Sailor 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 Category: Thank It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of Ambition that it never looks behind it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Ambition Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Adversity One should count each day a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Day For greed all nature is too little. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Nature Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Plan The sun shines even on the wicked. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Sun All cruelty springs from weakness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Cruel Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Law Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Luck This body is not a home but an inn; And that only for a short time. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Body There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Genius No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Discipline If you wished to be loved love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Love Whom they have injured they also hate. Quos læserunt et oderunt Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Hate I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Quotations We should give as we would receive cheerfully quickly and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Benefit If you judge investigate. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Judge |
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