"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company." - Seneca
"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is... - Seneca
"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two." - Seneca
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." - Seneca
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." - Seneca
"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders." - Seneca
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." - Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just ... - Seneca
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, wor... - Seneca
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin." - Seneca