Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If you wished to be loved, love.”

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”

“For greed all nature is too little.”

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”

“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

“Every reign must submit to a greater reign.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we ...”