Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happiness quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Future quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, UberQuotes

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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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?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca