Quotes by Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Where fear is happiness is not.

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

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

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.

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

One whos our friend is fond of us one whos fond of us isnt necessarily our friend.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

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.

Theres some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

For greed all nature is too little.

Greeds worst point is its ingratitude.

Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesnt consider himself supremely blessed.

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