230 Quotations by Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- 41. Every guilty person is his own hangman.
- 42. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
- 43. Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
- 44. Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
- 45. Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
- 46. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- 47. For greed all nature is too little.
- 48. For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
- 49. For the great benefits of our being -- our life, health, and reason -- we look upon ourselves.
- 50. Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
- 51. Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
- 52. Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compell ...
- 53. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
- 54. Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
- 55. Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitud ...
- 56. He has committed the crime who profits by it.
- 57. He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing!
- 58. He is the most powerful who has himself in his power.
- 59. He that does good to another does good also to himself.
- 60. He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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