Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone’s reach to live nobly, but within no one’s reach to live long.
Old age is an incurable disease.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
To one who knows it is superfluous to give advice; to one who does not know, it is insufficient.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
