115 Quotations by Seneca
- 1. A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do ...
- 2. A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach
- 3. A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, ...
- 4. All art is an imitation of nature.
- 5. An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
- 6. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- 7. As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without c ...
- 8. As was his language so was his life.
- 9. Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before ...
- 10. Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
- 11. Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life
- 12. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
- 13. Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
- 14. Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
- 15. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
- 16. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- 17. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- 18. Everything may happen.
- 19. Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
- 20. Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in s ...
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