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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Q...
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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) What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta inn...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare th...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude. [Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every change of place becomes a delight. [Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adfli...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent....
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time i...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod dec...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas Audire miser...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat.,...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; m...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonit...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)