Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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

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

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

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

One must steer, not talk.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.