Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best ideas are common property.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Not lost, but gone before.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Time discovers truth.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca