Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca