Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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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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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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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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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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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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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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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.