Famous Quotes / Marcus Annaeus Seneca
230 Quotations by Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- 161. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe alway ...
- 162. The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
- 163. The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- 164. The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- 165. The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
- 166. The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the ...
- 167. The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
- 168. The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health ...
- 169. The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- 170. The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
- 171. The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adver ...
- 172. The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
- 173. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres ...
- 174. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- 175. The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
- 176. The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its ow ...
- 177. The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
- 178. The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
- 179. The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb ...
- 180. The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than extern ...