Category: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?