Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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.
Life is warfare.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
No man was ever wise by chance.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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