Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Quote by Seneca

Topics: Fear Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard...

Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard...

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days...

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days...

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in...

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in...

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse...

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that...

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that...

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

Whom they have injured they also hate

Whom they have injured they also hate

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

For greed, all nature is too little.

For greed, all nature is too little.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune...

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune...

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is...

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may...