Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

If you wished to be loved, love.