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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
«One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«While we are postponing life speeds up.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«No man was ever wise by chance.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«There is no genius without a mixture of madness.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
«A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.»
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca