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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

seneca quotesA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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 Quotes

Opinion Quotes

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– “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy

– “Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. ” – Abraham Lincoln

– “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddha

– “To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.” – John Stuart Mill

– “My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.” – William Jones

– “We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.” – John Stuart Mill

– “The world is governed by opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes

– “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

– “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Ralph Inge

– “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” – Unknown

– “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F Kennedy

– “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” – Katherine Mansfield