Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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One must steer, not talk.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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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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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.