Common sense must guide our benefits; we must consider the time and the place, and the character of the receiver, which are the weights in the scale, which cause our gifts to be well or ill received.
― SenecaOn Benefits (Book I, Chapter 12)More from Seneca
View all quotes“Other vices can be concealed and cherished in secret; anger shows itself openly and appears in the countenance, and the greater it is, the more plainly it boils forth.”
― SenecaOn Anger (Book I, Chapter 1)
“Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement.”
― SenecaOn Anger (Book I, Chapter 5)
“There are certain things whose beginnings lie in our own power, but which, when developed, drag us along by their own force and leave us no retreat.”
― SenecaOn Anger (Book I, Chapter 7)