Maxioms Pet

X

Maxioms by Seneca (lucius Annaeus Seneca)

  ( comments )
  39  /  25  

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes read more

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear
silences the power of the law.
[Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus
Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;
Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]

  ( comments )
  9  /  27  

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare read more

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]

  ( comments )
  28  /  25  

They laboriously do nothing.
[Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]

They laboriously do nothing.
[Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]

  ( comments )
  14  /  25  

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod read more

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]

  ( comments )
  19  /  14  

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]

Maxioms Web Pet