Quotes by Roman/Rome authors (page 9)

"Do everything as in the eye of another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"One must steer, not talk"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"One crime has to be concealed by another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life, if well lived, is long enough"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life is warfare"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman