342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.