Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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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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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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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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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.