Seneca Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.