Quotes from Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man is a reasoning animal.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca