"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"No man was ever wise by chance."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"He who is brave is free."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"If you wished to be loved, love."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"He who has great power should use it lightly."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"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."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"For greed all nature is too little."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca