Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

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

Time discovers truth.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If you wished to be loved, love.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.