Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca