;
Recently cited online by the Washington Post, The Guardian, and Salon.com!!!
Bookmark us for quick future reference!!!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes (752 quotes)
 | “Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.” ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca Source/Notes: As quoted in "He that plays the king: a view of the theatre", Kenneth Tynan, Longmans, Green, 1950, p. 186 |
| “Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.” ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca Source/Notes: As quoted in: Forbes, Volume 142, Issues 5-10, Forbes Incorporated, 1988 |
| Source/Notes: Seneca's Morals, compiled by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1818, p. 237 |
|
| Source/Notes: In Latin: "Nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam." - Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, line 18. - Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) |
| “This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity, they hate those whom they have injured.” ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca Source/Notes: In Latin: "Hoc habent pessimum animi magna fortuna insolentes: quos laeserunt et oderunt." - De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 33, line 6 - Moral Essays |
If you know some quotes that would be a good fit here, send us a note!
Picture Source: Wikimedia Commons
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nationality: Roman
Occupation: Statesman
Bio: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent.
Popular Topics
Quote of the day
“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”
