Quotes by Seneca

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

Seneca on anger
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

Seneca on anger   

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."

Seneca on anger   

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

Seneca on anticipation   

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

Seneca on anxiety
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"There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy."

Seneca on appearance   

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca on appreciation
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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Seneca on architecture   

"Leisure without literature is death and burial alive."

Seneca on literature   

"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

Seneca on love
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."

Seneca on loyalty   

"What once were vices are manners now."

Seneca on manners   

"Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob."

Seneca on masses   

"It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching."

Seneca on medicine   

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

Seneca on memory
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"The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery."

Seneca on mind   

"That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution."

Seneca on moderation   

"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess."

Seneca on moderation   

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca on modesty   

"But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!"

Seneca on money   

"A great fortune is a great slavery."

Seneca on money   

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

Seneca on morality   

"If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich."

Seneca on nature   

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

Seneca on night
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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."

Seneca on ostentation   

"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."

Seneca on pain   

"Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!"

Seneca on pain   

"Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one."

Seneca on philosophers and philosophy   

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."

Seneca on pleasure   

"So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come."

Seneca on pleasure   

"All art is an imitation of nature."

Seneca on art   

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"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."

Seneca on ask   

"It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit."

Seneca on audiences   

"The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends."

Seneca on politics   

"Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor."

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

Seneca on power   

"If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command."

Seneca on power