Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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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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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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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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If you judge, investigate.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.