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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes About Life

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

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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.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes About Nature

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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All art is but imitation of nature.

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For greed all nature is too little.

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More Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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

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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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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.

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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.

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Browse 179 quotes attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, listed in the source data as a Roman Statesman, organized around themes such as Life, Nature, Courage. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.