Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca