To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotations
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium
That grief is light which can take counsel.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
Time discovers truth.
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
If you wished to be loved, love.
No man ever became wise by chance.
If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
All art is but imitation of nature.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens
Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae
Time heals what reason cannot.
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium