Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

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

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

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

No man was ever wise by chance.

It is anothers 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.

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.

The first step in a persons salvation is knowledge of their sin.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

A persons fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

He who is brave is free.

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health.