He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
