Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature…

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends…

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future…

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to…

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand…

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if…

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it…

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the…

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable…

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the…

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how…

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad…

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing…

He that does good to another does good also to himself…

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things…