Seneca Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Qui mori didicit servire dedidicit.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It even helps stupid people to try hard.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca