Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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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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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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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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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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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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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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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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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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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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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 person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.