3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
