Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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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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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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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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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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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 is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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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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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.