You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
SENECAHe is most powerful who governs himself.
More Seneca Quotes
-
-
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA -
A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
SENECA -
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
SENECA -
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
SENECA -
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA -
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
SENECA -
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
SENECA -
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA -
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA -
He who is brave is free.
SENECA -
Find a path or make one.
SENECA -
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
SENECA -
If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
SENECA -
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SENECA -
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
SENECA