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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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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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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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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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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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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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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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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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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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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If you wished to be loved, love.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.