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

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do everything as in the eye of another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca