Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you would judge, understand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca