Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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