Seneca Quotes
- Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you
- Laws do not persuade because they threaten
- So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
- Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for…
- Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.
- Old age is an incurable disease.
- Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.
- He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
- He who profits by a crime commits it
- A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor
- Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse
- Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil
- To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
- To greed, all nature is insufficient.
- A great step towards independence is good humored stomach
- Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return
- The greater part of progress is the desire for progress
- A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
- The whole world is my native land
- The courts of kings are full of men, empty of friends.