Seneca
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
friendship
Seneca
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
future
Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
life
Seneca
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
adversity
Seneca
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
adversity
Seneca
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du
adversity
Seneca
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
age
Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
anger
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.
conflict
Seneca
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
destiny
Seneca
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
fortune
Seneca
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
giving
Seneca
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
government
Seneca
That grief is light which can take counsel.
grief
Seneca
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
grief
Seneca
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
health
Seneca
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
heart
Seneca
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
intelligence
Seneca
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
intelligence
Seneca
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
life
Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
life
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.
life
Seneca
If you wished to be loved, love.
love
Seneca
He who has great power should use it lightly.
power
Seneca
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
prayer
Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
religion
Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
religion
Seneca
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
success
Seneca
Time heals what reason cannot.
time
Seneca
Time discovers truth.
time
Seneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
travel
Seneca
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
want
Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
weakness