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Speeches (oratory)
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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Speeches (oratory)
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Success & Failure
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Success & Failure
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Suffering
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Suffering
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Trouble, Troubles
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Crying
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Time
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Time discovered truth.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Time
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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