If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca