Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
What is true belongs to me!
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
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