Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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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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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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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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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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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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One must steer, not talk.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.