Famous Quotes

Quotes by Seneca

• I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
• 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 shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
• 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?
• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
• If you wished to be loved, love.
• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
• In war there is no prize for runner-up.
• 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.
• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.