A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca More Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca More Quotes From Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Malice drinks one half of its own poison. Lucius Annaeus Seneca This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. Lucius Annaeus Seneca We learn not in the school, but in life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Time heals what reason cannot. Lucius Annaeus Seneca As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
