Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The best ideas are common property.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Not lost, but gone before.

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.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It 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.