Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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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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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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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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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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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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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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One must steer, not talk.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.