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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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If you wished to be loved, love.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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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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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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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.