Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.