| 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)
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“Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
[Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Hercules Furens (DCXIV)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]”
Beginnings Quotes Source: De Consolatione ad Polybium (I)
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“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)
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“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)
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“The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]”
Guilt Quotes Source: Thyestes (CCCXXX)
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“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)
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“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)
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“A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]”
Enjoyment Quotes Source: Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]”
Fidelity Quotes Source: Agamemnon (287)
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“Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]”
Fidelity Quotes Source: Agamemnon (934)
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“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)
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“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)
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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.]”
Ability Quotes Source: Epistles (76)
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“They laboriously do nothing.
[Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]”
Nothingness Quotes Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (bk. I, 13)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“Whom they have injured they also hate.
[Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]”
Hatred Quotes Source: De Ira (bk. II, ch. 33)
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