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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Seneca the Younger (circa 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist who served as an advisor to Emperor Nero. His writings on ethics, anger, grief, and the shortness of life remain cornerstones of Stoic philosophy and continue to resonate with modern readers seeking wisdom on how to live well.

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage

All Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

Wisdom

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art

“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Home

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship

“A great fortune is a great slavery.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“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

Time

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“If you wished to be loved, love.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger

“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.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God

“Where fear is, happiness is not.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear

“The wish for healing has always been half of health.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health

“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knowledge

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Business