Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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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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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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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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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.