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

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

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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