342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.