Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Quotes

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

«It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«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.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«It is quality rather than quantity that matters.»

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

«That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.»