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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
All art is but imitation of nature.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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.
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.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
It is another's 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.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.