Famous quotes by Statesmans

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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

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

"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 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

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If you would judge, understand"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever is well said by another, is mine"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What is true belongs to me!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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