Quotes from Seneca

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.

All art is an imitation of nature.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

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

As was his language so was his life.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.