Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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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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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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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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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 made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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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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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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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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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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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.