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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth Want Telling The Truth Pray

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life God Thoughts World My Life See

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Greatness Mind Doing Turn Much

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Grief Someone Nothing Fresh Chronic

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Too Much Rule Who He Much Dreads

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wish You Will Ask Got Had

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Live Yourself Wish You Must Another

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Justice Duty Master Without May

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear Power Great Service Stand Help

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature Creative Effort World Living

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Good Long Matters How Tale

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime Virtue Successful Fortunate

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