Quotes by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.....

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence....

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at....

For greed all nature is too little.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can....

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no....