If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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

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

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca