Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”

“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”

“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.”

“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

“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 se...”

“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”

“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

“For greed all nature is too little.”

“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

“Every guilty person is his own hangman.”

“Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.”

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

“If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”

“The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.”