“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and self...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote

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

“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”

“A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.”

“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”

“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.”

“Some time has passed? He holds it in recollection. Time is upon us? He uses it. Time is to come? This he anticipates. The combining of all times into one makes his life long.”

“God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.”

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”

“I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.”

“Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.”

“Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow.”

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”