Scripture · Religious literatureAll flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.1st Peter 1:2465★ 4.6
Scripture · Religious literatureBe sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.1st Peter 5:865★ 3.8
LetterWe are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?Seneca65★ 3.6
LetterMen do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.Seneca65★ 3.6
LetterNo person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.Seneca65★ 3.6
Scripture · Religious literatureAbstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.1st Peter 2:1165★ 3.6
Poem · Historical literatureIs the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.LucanPharsalia · 65★ 3.5
LetterEternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.Seneca65★ 2.0
Letter · Philosophical literatureNothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in their own company.Seneca65★ 1.9
LetterA great step towards independence is a good humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.Seneca65★ 1.2
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