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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes (752 quotes)

“He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Source/Notes:
Seneca (1967 edition)

“He who is brave is free.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Source/Notes:
Delphi Complete Works of Seneca the Younger (Illustrated): (2014 edition), Delphi Classics

“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Source/Notes:
Epistolae, 71, 3

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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.

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