The belly will not listen to advice.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Levity of behavior is the bone of all that is good and virtuous.
You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind. To be everywhere is to be nowhere. People who spend their whole life travelling abroad end up having plenty of […]
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger.
