Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
Lucius Accius
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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
[Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
ACCIUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate us so long as they fear us. - Roman Emperor
CALIGULA Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.
Let them criticize you, but remain wise.
Let them...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him." Daniel shrugged. "'Fear leads to
a...
BREE DESPAIN Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.
-Oromis
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Love has no opposite.
Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;
they are its denial.
IVAN M. GRANGER Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame mak...
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
ALEXANDER HAIG We Destroy Because We Hate
We Hate Because We Fear
We Fear Because We Don’t ...
JA’SON WHITE So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
“Yeah.”
“The one you risked y...
SUSAN EE The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
NEIL GAIMAN They hate whom they fear.
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear
QUINTUS ENNIUS Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control the...
NANCY SIMMS Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear...
WILL SHETTERLY Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I like pink."
Lucius sniffed. "It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.
BETH FANTASKEY Don’t let anger control you.
Don’t let hate enslave you.
Don’t let negativity overco...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sometimes it was awesome to sit back and let another person take control. So long as they did really...
LETA BLAKE I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and y...
J.K. ROWLING It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time.
Not as though we...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
[Inaugural Add...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I tell me:
Let these words be footsteps, because I have a long way to travel. Let the wor...
MARKUS ZUSAK intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear...
SAUL WILLIAMS As long as they let me, I guess.
AARON MCGRUDER -----LOVE-----
-----HOVE-----
-----HAVE-----
-----HATE-----
Love can turn into h...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimat...
PABLO SANDOVAL As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
GEORGE HARRISON I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
I will share your burden
so you feel it...
KAMAND KOJOURI Never let fear hold you captive.
Never let self-doubt hold you captive.
Never let frustr...
ROY T. BENNETT Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. <...
SIPPORAH JOSEPH NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTH
YOUR GREATNESS
SO LET THEM STEAL
TIME WILL REVEAL
QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER Health, wealth, happiness,
live long and always prosper,
have families and also friends, TOBA BETA Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
[Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem qui...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they cham...
JONAH GOLDBERG They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...
JULIAN BARNES Let them travel freely
from heart to lips.
Feelings they are
don’t cut them off at...
DRISHTI BABLANI There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her ...
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST I don't know how to dress girls, I know how to dress women
BETH FANTASKEY Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as...
DENNIS MUREN Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all figh...
BROM Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI From the dear comes grief;
From the dear comes fear.
If you're freed from the dear
...
ANONYMOUS Have you ever
had so much to say
that your mouth closed up tight
struggling to harnes...
ELLEN HOPKINS Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;<...
SWEDISH PROVERB Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH Dum Spiro, spero
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I shall not dwell in the past...
I shall not dread the present...
I shall not fear the Fut...
OSCAR TREJO JR. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than...
KEMI SOGUNLE Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw ...
RICHARD DAWKINS What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their ex...
LAO TZU As long as you're alive...
...you can't put life on hold like you can with a game-so that's why...
HOTARU ODAGIRI Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
LINUS PAULING Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Love it and it will love back as long as it is a lover. Hate it and it will hate back as long as it ...
EPHDAN They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have n...
ERNEST DOWSON Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so al...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Resistance is what makes fear so terrifying.
Fear is beautiful, embrace fear and it will ...
JOHN MAIORANA (OOHGIOVANNI) Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.
That's pity. Much better men let them...
TOBA BETA I hate it
the way the heart
takes too long
to figure out what the mind
already k...
R.H. SIN A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!<...
ANON. At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the ...
DAN PEARCE Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...
JUDY BLUME People can be so cold, they will hurt you, and desert you, they will take your soul if you let them,...
JAMES TAYLOR So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have alwa...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If I were a vampire, I'd want to bite someone. I'd be thirsty for blood," I said in a last ditch att...
BETH FANTASKEY When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as...
SIMONE ELKELES Then why do they hate me?
No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always c...
E. MELLYBERRY I hate you."
I love you."
You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always hav...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never so sure our rapture to create
As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Oh, come on Em." He stopped walking and looked me in the eyes. His own were dark and shiny. "You kno...
JENNIFER JABALEY Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limb...
MUNIA KHAN Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move a...
PAULO COELHO Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
B...
LILY AMIS I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jalal shook his head and moved toward Khalid. "She is. Please give her a chance to explain."
"L...
RENEE AHDIEH Dreamers must dream on
as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful o...
MUNIA KHAN Let them travel freely, from heart to lips.
Feelings they are, don't cut them off at tips.
DRISHTI BABLANI The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them - they celebrate them, they vilify them, and t...
LUCY FOLEY Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go...
DEE WILLIAMS If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are mot...
ABDOULAYE WADE Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
YODA Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
GEORGE LUCAS The first music I ever heard
was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived. ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Warrior knows what they capable of and So they are not fear of hunting them by anyone
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Hate your haters, then you are no different
from them.
RACINE BAMWANYA
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Let them hate so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
[Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame mak...
LUCIUS ACCIUS Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
ACCIUS It was just settling in that I was there for the hurricane, and then I came here. Now it seems like ...
ARIEL LUCIUS The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worr...
LUCIUS THOMAS I had promised on taking office that I would see my members - the rank and file mostly. I make sure ...
LUCIUS THOMAS It is not something that one can ever forget.
LUCIUS THOMAS We don't want to get caught out there trying to get gas.
LUCIUS MONROE When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
LUCIUS CARY New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.
LUCIUS BEEBE 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 I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
LUCIUS C. FALKLAND When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
LUCIUS C. FALKLAND Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
LUCIUS C. LACTANTIUS 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 When prizes go to the wicked it is hard for any man to be good without reward.
LUCIUS MARCIUS PHILIPPUS 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.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one ...
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.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to
live in necessity.
[Lat., Malum est...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hom...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which
is the proper judge of the man.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to
his own work, may direct his gaze...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri r...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.
[Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Ser...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what
constitutes true friendship.
CATILINE (LUCIUS SERGIUS CATILINA) A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
[Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discord...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est tur...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that
received it disclose it.
[Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
[Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the
intention of the giver or doer.
[Lat....
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
[Lat., Qui timide rogat,
Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigun...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
[Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
[Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Revenge is an inhuman word.
[Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which
has been bestowed upon him; he is...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
[Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whom they have injured they also hate.
[Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
[Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
[Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Poison is drunk out of gold.
[Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been
unfortunate. for it has never been...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) They laboriously do nothing.
[Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium si...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
[Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare qu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) That grief is light which can take counsel.
[Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)