Seneca the Younger Quotes About Power
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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