Seneca

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them read more

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.