Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#postponing #speeds #while

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #favorable #know #port #sailing

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fate #fortune #god #names #nature

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#large #mankind #part #sinners #sins

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#quality #quantity #rather #than

A great fortune is a great slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #slavery

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appreciation #become #destroys #our #prosperity

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

#anger #anything #harm #more #poured