The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak. — 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
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — 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
