342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

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

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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