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He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]


Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

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An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato ju...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis pl...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin s...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam pa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris Vis erat.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN 'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the fl...
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
LUCAN Procrastination is a relief
LUCAN Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
LUCAN A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
LUCAN Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
LUCAN A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune
LUCAN Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves
LUCAN The victorious cause pleased the Gods, but the conquered one pleased Cato.
LUCAN The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger
LUCAN God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
LUCAN The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
LUCAN Great fear is concealed under daring.
LUCAN There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself
LUCAN Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature
LUCAN Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared
LUCAN In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right
LUCAN To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong
LUCAN Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
LUCAN Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for...
MEDLAR LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
F. L. LUCAN The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
F. L. LUCAN Might was the measure of right.
F. L. LUCAN Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
F. L. LUCAN The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t...
F. L. LUCAN The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
F. L. LUCAN Great fear is concealed under daring.
F. L. LUCAN Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
F. L. LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
F. L. LUCAN Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who is brave is free.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA All art is but imitation of nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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 As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thun...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than exte...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which i...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and comma...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many a...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No man was ever wise by chance.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passi...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they a...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If you wished to be loved, love.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The wish for healing has always been half of health.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but whe...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze....
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one c...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A great mind becomes a great fortune.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in ex...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of app...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the pow...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy lif...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who has great power should use it lightly.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wealth is the slave of wise man. The master of a fool.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our nee...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA While we are postponing life speeds up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA One must steer, not talk.
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA In war there is no prize for runner-up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA For greed all nature is too little.
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