A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca