Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"No man was ever wise by chance."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"While we are postponing life speeds up."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
-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

"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca