Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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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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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.
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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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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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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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One must steer, not talk.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.