Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

70 Famous Quotes by Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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“The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est.]”
Royalty Quotes
Source: Hercules Furens (CCCXLIV)
“Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]”
Royalty Quotes
Source: Hercules Furens (DCXIV)
“There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]”
Satisfaction Quotes
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
“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.]”
Hunger Quotes
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XVIII)
“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.]”
Necessity Quotes
Source: Epistles (58)
“Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]”
Beginnings Quotes
Source: De Consolatione ad Polybium (I)
“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.]”
Ingratitude Quotes
Source: De Beneficiis (III, 1)
“He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]”
Guilt Quotes
Source: Hercules Oetoeus (886)
“The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus.]”
Guilt Quotes
Source: Thyestes (CCCXXX)
“Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.”
Vice Quotes
Source: Epistles (97)
“What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]”
Innocence Quotes
Source: De Ira (II, 27)
“A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]”
Enjoyment Quotes
Source: Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4)
“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.]”
Injury Quotes
Source: De Ira (III, 5)
“It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]”
Insult Quotes
Source: De Ira (II, 32)
“We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.”
Will Quotes
Source: Of Benefits (bk. V, ch. XXV, ep. 67)
“Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]”
Fidelity Quotes
Source: Agamemnon (287)
“Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]”
Fidelity Quotes
Source: Agamemnon (934)
“Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]”
Posterity Quotes
Source: Epistles (XCIII)
“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.]”
Gratitude Quotes
Source: De Beneficiis (II, 25)
“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.]”
Ability Quotes
Source: Epistles (76)
“They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]”
Nothingness Quotes
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (bk. I, 13)
“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.]”
Insanity Quotes
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.]”
Insanity Quotes
Source: De Tranquillitate Animi (XVII, 10)
“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”
Envy Quotes
Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. XIX)
“Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]”
Hatred Quotes
Source: De Ira (bk. II, ch. 33)