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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 no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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All Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“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

Freedom

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“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

Good

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art

“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Business

“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger

“Time discovers truth.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time

“Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Best

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knowledge

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Future

“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Power

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Future