117 Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on thankful

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

Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on time

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

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on trust

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on truth

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

Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on truth

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on war

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on war

In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on war

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on work

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on work

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on courage