Lucius Annaeus Seneca
99 quotes
Biography
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
"If you wished to be loved, love."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
"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."
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
"Where fear is, happiness is not."
"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."
"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."
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering."
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."