Marcus Annaeus Seneca (54 BC – c. AD 39), often known as Seneca the Rhetorician or Seneca the Elder, was a Roman authority on the history and techniques of oratory. He was the father of the stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (Lucius) who was tutor of Nero and grandfather of Lucan.
Quotes:
- “The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.”
- “A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”
- “He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.”
- “You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.”
- “Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
- “It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
- “If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.”
- “If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.”
- “If you want to be loved, love.”
- “What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”
- “No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.”
- “Let us be brave in the face of adversity.”
- “No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.”
- “We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”
- “There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
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