Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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One must steer, not talk.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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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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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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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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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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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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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.