Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Time discovers truth.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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