Lucius Annaeus Seneca - About art - 93059

"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.“

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

posted in art

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

wisdomView Quote

"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

wisdomView Quote

"No man was ever wise by chance."

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

wisdomView Quote

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

More Quotes About art

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."

-Jet Li

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."

-Ludwig Erhard

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."

-Theodore Bikel

"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."

-Robert Carlyle

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

-Karl Kraus

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

-Ben Okri