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70 Quotes for 'Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)' in the Database.

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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
Topic: Ability
Source: Epistles (76)
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]
Topic: Adversity
Source: De Providentia (IV)
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]
Topic: Adversity
Source: Lib. de Divina Providentia
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.]
Topic: Beggary
Source: Hippolytus (II, 593)
Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
Topic: Beginnings
Source: De Consolatione ad Polybium (I)
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]
Topic: Benefits
Source: De Beneficiis (I, 6)
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]
Topic: Benefits
Source: De Beneficiis (II, 1)
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]
Topic: Benefits
Source: De Beneficiis (II, 11)
He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
Topic: Benefits
Source: Proverbs of Seneca
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
Topic: Companionship
Source: De Consolatione ad Marciam (12, 5)
[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]
Topic: Companionship
Source: Epistles (XIX)
No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
Topic: Companionship
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]
Topic: Contention
Source: Nat. Quoest (bk. VII, 27)
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni; Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]
Topic: Crime
Source: Hercules Furens (CCLI)
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4)
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Topic: Envy
Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. XIX)
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
Topic: Fidelity
Source: Agamemnon (287)
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
Topic: Fidelity
Source: Agamemnon (934)
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]
Topic: Gratitude
Source: De Beneficiis (II, 25)
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Topic: Grief
Source: Hippolytus (607)
That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
Topic: Grief
Source: Medea (I, 55)
Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
Topic: Grief
Source: Troades (786)
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]
Topic: Guilt
Source: Hercules Oetoeus (886)
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus.]
Topic: Guilt
Source: Thyestes (CCCXXX)
Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
Topic: Hatred
Source: De Ira (bk. II, ch. 33)
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]
Topic: Hunger
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XVIII)
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: De Beneficiis (III, 1)
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]
Topic: Injury
Source: De Ira (III, 5)
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]
Topic: Innocence
Source: De Ira (II, 27)
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: De Ira (II, 26)
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: De Tranquillitate Animi (XVII, 10)
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]
Topic: Insult
Source: De Ira (II, 32)
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXXIII)
If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
Topic: Judges
Source: Medea (CXCIV)
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
Topic: Judgment
Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. I), (L'Estrange's Abstract)
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
Topic: Kindness
Source: Thyestes (CCXIV)
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides, Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
Topic: Loss
Source: Agamemnon (CXII)
Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]
Topic: Mercy
Source: Troades (329)
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
Topic: Misery
Source: De Providentia (V)
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas Audire miseri.]
Topic: Misery
Source: Hercules Oetoeus (754)
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: De Procidentia (IV)
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: De Providentia (III)
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XCVIII)
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Hercules Furens (463)
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]
Topic: Necessity
Source: Epistles (58)
They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
Topic: Nothingness
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (bk. I, 13)
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Octavia (444)
Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
Topic: Poison
Source: Thyestes (III, 453)
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]
Topic: Posterity
Source: Epistles (XCIII)
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]
Topic: Praise
Source: Octavia (454)

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