Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

For greed all nature is too little.

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

All art is but imitation of nature.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.