Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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One must steer, not talk.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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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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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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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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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 no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.