Seneca

Seneca
anger frequently hate hurtful injury
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
compact
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
good
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
justice
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
appears dead living organic product therefore universal
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.
wealth
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
constant danger dangers
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
architecture believe
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
frivolous meticulous mind presume writers-and-writing
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
prayer telling truth
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
happy lied outside pale thrust ways
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.
harbor man
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
everywhere foreign friends-or-friendship spends time
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.