Authors - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Brief Biography
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC - AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder and his elder brother was Gallio. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1481by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Quote 5024by Anonymous on 06/05/2011
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Quote 5153by Anonymous on 25/05/2011
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Quote 5390by Anonymous on 25/06/2011
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Quote 5427by Anonymous on 29/06/2011
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Quote 5524by Anonymous on 11/07/2011
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Quote 5581by Anonymous on 23/07/2011
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Quote 5820by Anonymous on 30/08/2011
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Quote 5852by Anonymous on 31/08/2011
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Quote 6034by Anonymous on 12/09/2011
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Quote 6130by Anonymous on 14/09/2011
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Quote 6140by Anonymous on 14/09/2011
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Quote 6175by Anonymous on 14/09/2011
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Quote 6273by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Quote 6330by Anonymous on 18/09/2011
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Quote 6352by Anonymous on 18/09/2011
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Quote 6379by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
Quote 6462by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Quote 6514by Anonymous on 23/09/2011
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Quote 6554by Anonymous on 28/09/2011
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Quote 6600by Anonymous on 01/10/2011
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Quote 6765by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Quote 6776by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Quote 6892by Anonymous on 13/10/2011
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Quote 6953by Anonymous on 14/10/2011
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Quote 7120by Anonymous on 23/10/2011
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Quote 7213by Anonymous on 28/10/2011
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Quote 7239by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Quote 7424by Anonymous on 12/11/2011
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Quote 7427by Anonymous on 12/11/2011
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Quote 7587by Anonymous on 28/12/2011
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Quote 8432by Anonymous on 12/05/2012
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Quote 8535by Anonymous on 17/05/2012
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Quote 14028by Anonymous on 11/10/2013
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
