467 ordspråk av Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Fear drives the wretched to prayer |
| Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. |
| Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money |
| For greed, all nature is too little. |
| For it is both a vice to believe everyone and no-one |
| For man is a reasoning animal. Therefore, man's highest good is attained if he has fulfilled the good for which nature designed him at birth. And what is it which this reason demands of him? The easiest thing in the world: to live in accordance with his own nature. |
| For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. |
| Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. |
| Fortune dreads the brave and is only terrible to the coward |
| Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. |
| Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. |
| Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. |
| Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. |
| From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. |
| Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. |
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