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Famous Quotes By Seneca
 All art is an imitation of nature. 
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
If you wished to be loved, love.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. —Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narrat qui accepit
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no mans power to live long.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
One should count each day a separate life.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
The day which we fear as our last is but the
birthday of eternity
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
The language of truth is simple.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; its the intention, not the face-value of the gift, thats weighed.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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