Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.
By Seneca
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
By Seneca
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
By Seneca
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
By Seneca
It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
By Seneca
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
By Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
By Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
By Seneca
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
By Seneca
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
By Seneca
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
By Seneca
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
By Seneca
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
By Seneca
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
By Seneca
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
By Seneca
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
By Seneca
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
By Seneca
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
By Seneca
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
By Seneca
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
By Seneca
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
By Seneca
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
By Seneca
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
By Seneca
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
By Seneca
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
By Seneca
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.
By Seneca
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
By Seneca
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
By Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
By Seneca
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
By Seneca
