Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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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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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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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 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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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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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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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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.