Seneca
"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself." - Seneca
"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you." - Seneca
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Seneca
"He who is brave is free." - Seneca
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved... - Seneca
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." - Seneca
"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own se... - Seneca
"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow ol... - Seneca
"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind." - Seneca
"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists ever... - Seneca
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." - Seneca
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage." - Seneca
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough." - Seneca
"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute." - Seneca
"You learn to know a pilot in a storm." - Seneca
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail." - Seneca
"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse." - Seneca
"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy." - Seneca
"If you judge, investigate." - Seneca
"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power." - Seneca
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Seneca
"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 man... - Seneca
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca
"The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember." - Seneca
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it." - Seneca
"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb." - Seneca
"What is true belongs to me!" - Seneca
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality." - Seneca
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." - Seneca
"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods." - Seneca
"He who has great power should use it lightly." - Seneca
"Where fear is, happiness is not." - Seneca
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God." - Seneca
"Modesty forbids what the law does not." - Seneca