Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
LifeRainLightFireSkySun
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
StormLearnYouKnowPilot
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
TodayTomorrowLivingAnticipation
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
SinPunishmentFirstConscience
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.
ThankfulGreatManFindWillFault
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
MindBodyLaborDifficultiesDoes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
LiveCourageSometimesActEven
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
ManPoorMoreLittleWhoToo
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
ManMiserableThinksHe
Time discovers truth.
TruthTimeDiscovers
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
LifeGreatHappyHappy LifeFind
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
GuiltyPersonOwnHangmanEveryHis
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