Seneca ( 10 of 106 )
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one read more
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
He is most powerful who has power over himself
He is most powerful who has power over himself
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.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
