Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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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.
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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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.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.