Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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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.