So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its ow...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy lif...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Time discovered truth.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of ap...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradual...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who is brave is free.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compell...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than extern...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Where the fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which i...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable di...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He has committed the crime who profits by it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secre...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitud...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are u...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He that does good to another does good also to himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but whe...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) For greed all nature is too little.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Modesty forbids what the law does not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The sun also shines on the wicked.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare t...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you would judge, understand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you judge, investigate.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our nee...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warm...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Do everything as in the eye of another.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking per...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sk...
SENECA Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat)
SENECA True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA