Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca