Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

All art is but imitation of nature.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

He who is brave is free.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

If you would judge, understand.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.