“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca