Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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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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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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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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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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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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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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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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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.