Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Roman - Statesman 5 BC - 65 AD

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship, Beautiful, True Friendship

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness, Future, True Happiness, Enjoy

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Nature, Happy Life, Happy, Own

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Kindness, Opportunity, Human, Wherever

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War, Adversity, Men, Brave, Soldiers

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Opportunity, Luck, Meeting, Preparation

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man, Brainy, Without, Trials, Gem, Nor

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Gift, Done, Intention, Giver

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Greatness, Road, Heights, Rough

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

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Quality, Brainy, Matters, Than, Quantity

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Imagination, Hurt, Reality, More, Than

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Day, Fear, Death, Eternity

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man, Wind, Right, He, Knows, Harbor

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, Delay, Greatest, Remedy

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Genius, Madness, Without, Touch

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love, Fire, Spiritual, Essence

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

Man, Wise, Angry, Medical, Look, Sick

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

Time, Travel, Friends, Person, He, His

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man, Adversity, Brave, Mind, Pressure

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

Difficult, Dare, Things, Because

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Advice, Good Advice, Well, Who

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Business, Wind, Know, Sailing, Port

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Sky, Rain, Light, Fire, Sun

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Person, Own, Who, Remorse, Subject, Whip

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

Day, Today, Night, Temptation, Every Day

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Body, Difficulties, Labor, Does

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