Maxioms by Seneca
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the read more
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that read more
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to read more
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.