Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Senecawas a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
good gratitude mind
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
fade health
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
demands display few grief men sad
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
benefit sticks
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
author bad citing quotes shall
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
everywhere foreign friends-or-friendship spends time
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
harbor man
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
happy lied outside pale thrust ways
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.
prayer telling truth
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
frivolous meticulous mind presume writers-and-writing
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
architecture believe
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
constant danger dangers
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
wealth
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
appears dead living organic product therefore universal
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.