Seneca
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
SenecaLive with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you
SenecaThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away
SenecaLaws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SenecaAll things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
SenecaEverything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
SenecaWe most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
SenecaWe are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
SenecaSpeech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
SenecaDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SenecaHe who spares the wicked injures the good.
SenecaEnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SenecaNot to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SenecaThe arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
SenecaIt is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
SenecaHe who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
SenecaMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SenecaIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SenecaTo be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SenecaI require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
SenecaThere is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
SenecaWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
SenecaThe path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SenecaYou can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SenecaIt is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Seneca
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