Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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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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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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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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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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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One must steer, not talk.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.