Seneca

If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut
up and refrain from declaring it, read more

If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut
up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in
owning anything unshared.

It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have read more

It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything
to his own advantage. Thou must live for read more

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything
to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live
for thyself.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes read more

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.