Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do…

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may…

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage…

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

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do…

No man was ever wise by chance…

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody…

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days…

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something…

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is…

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be…

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes…

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last…

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall…

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and…