Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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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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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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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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If you wished to be loved, love.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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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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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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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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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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If you would judge, understand.