3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
