Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.