Seneca Quotes
+30There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Seneca
+22The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Seneca
+14To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
- Seneca
+6Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
- Seneca
+3Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
- Seneca
+3A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
- Seneca
+2Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
- Seneca
+1It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
- Seneca
+1It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
- Seneca
+1The fear of war is worse than war itself.
- Seneca
+1Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
- Seneca
+1Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
- Seneca
+1Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
- Seneca
+1It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca
+1A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- Seneca
+1To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
- Seneca
+1It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
+1We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Seneca
+1There is nothing so bitter, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
- Seneca
+1Whatever begins, also ends.
- Seneca
+1Luck never made a man wise.
- Seneca
+1The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca
+1Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
- Seneca
+1Whom they have injured, they also hate.
- Seneca
+1It 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.
- Seneca
+1There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Seneca
+1We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- Seneca
+1If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Seneca
+1This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
- Seneca
+1There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude confidence in self.
- Seneca
+1There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
- Seneca
+1Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
- Seneca
+1Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Seneca
+1Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- Seneca
+1The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca
+1Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
0It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
- Seneca
0If you wished to be loved, love.
- Seneca
0Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
- Seneca
0Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know.
- Charles Lamb
