For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. – 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. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. – 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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca