Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”

“The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.”

“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”

“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”

“In war there is no prize for runner-up.”

“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”

“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”

“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”

“A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.”

“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

“No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.”

“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”

“Every reign must submit to a greater reign.”

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

“That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.”

“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“One must steer, not talk.”

“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”