Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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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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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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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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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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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.
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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.
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.