Tag: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

A great fortune is a great slavery.