Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness

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

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For greed all nature is too little.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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