342 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence about the future.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

No man ever became wise by chance.

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Someone who pretends not to have received it is ungrateful. Someone who fails to repay it is ungrateful. But the most ungrateful of all is the person who forgets that he received it.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.