Seneca The Younger

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
-Seneca

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
-Seneca

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
-Seneca

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
-Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
-Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
-Seneca

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
-Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt.
-Seneca

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

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
-Seneca