Lucius Annaeus Seneca III

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time discovers truth.
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

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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 abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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 to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is true belongs to me!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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 he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca