Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Senecawas a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
wealth
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
appears dead living organic product therefore universal
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
justice
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
good
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
compact
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
anger frequently hate hurtful injury
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
anxiety reality suffer
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
people satisfies success
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
evil heart human powerful propensity subdued
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
great power
He who has great power should use it lightly.
man urges wary
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
deal difference great knowledge sin whether wills
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
difficulty labor strengthen
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
die enraged
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.