342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.