Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
One must steer, not talk.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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