Let us consider whether we ought not to be even more careful in choosing to whom we should owe than to whom we should give.
― SenecaOn Benefits (Book II, Chapter 18)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)