Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship, Beautiful, True

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

Health, Healing, Wish

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

Cannot, Trials, Nor

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Done, Gift

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

Religion, Wise, True

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

Death, Birthday, Fear

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

Business, Wind, Sailing

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

Happiness, Future, True

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

Hurt, Reality, Often

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, Hurtful, Injury

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love, Loved, Wished

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

Life, While, Speeds

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

Thankful, Great, Give

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Play, Acting

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

Wise, Angry, Sick

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Weakness, Cruelty, Springs

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Good, Long

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

Battle, Two, Quarrel

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rather, Quality, Matters

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

Life, Health, Money

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

Men, War, Brave

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

Greatness, Road, Rough

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love, Spiritual, Fire

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, Harm, Acid

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom, Wise, Chance

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Statesman

Born: 5 BC

Died: 65 AD

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