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Danh ngôn của Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Sứ mệnh: 9)

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
All art is but imitation of nature.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
No man was ever wise by chance.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
He who is brave is free.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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.
For greed all nature is too little.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Time discovers truth.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.