Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I dont trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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

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

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

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lifes like a play: its not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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.

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.