Statesman · Roman · 179 quotes
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Statesman · Roman
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.
Time discovers truth.
If you wished to be loved, love.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
One must steer, not talk.
He who is brave is free.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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.
If you would judge, understand.
Life is warfare.
What is true belongs to me!
I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
If you judge, investigate.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
