Famous Quotes

"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• "Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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

• "The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

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

• "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."