- ...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65 Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- All art is but imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- All cruelty springs from weakness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- 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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- In every good man a God doth dwell. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- It is well to be born either a king or a fool. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Malice drinks one half of its own poison. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- No man ever became wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- That grief is light which can take counsel. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The best ideas are common property. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Time heals what reason cannot. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- We learn not in the school, but in life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
- Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. Lucius Annaeus Seneca »
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