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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.


Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor)

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is no...
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it
CATO THE CENSOR He who fears death has already lost the life he covets
CATO THE CENSOR Think Cato sees thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference ...
PLUTARCH Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide differenc...
PLUTARCH What Cato did, and Addison approved, Cannot be wrong
EUSTACE BUDGELL What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. The victorious cause pleased the Gods, but the conquered one pleased Cato.
LUCAN Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS We talked about getting turnovers and Cato got us started.
GARY BRACKETT It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS) Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
ENGLISH PROVERB Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
UNKNOWN In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
PROVERB Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
BRUCE LEE "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
BRUCE LEE Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
THOMAS HOOD Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things...
SUZANNE COLLINS Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Though Cato lived, though Tully spoke, though Brutus dealt the godlike stroke, yet perished fated Ro...
ROBERT CRAGGS NUGENT The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasin...
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Carthago delenda est
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO We knew if we could just get one big play we'd be OK. Cato got that interception and we turned it ar...
COREY SIMON Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is no...
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it
CATO THE CENSOR Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR He who fears death has already lost the life he covets
CATO THE CENSOR An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasin...
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Carthago delenda est
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows ho...
CATO The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind. [Lat., Rem ...
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CATO JUNE We were 17 down. We had to go out and get the ball back, ... Seventeen points in the first quarter, ...
CATO JUNE We expect to make the playoffs. That's nothing. We have a bigger goal. We're taking it week-by-week....
CATO JUNE I saw him helping us out a lot on special teams and on the defense. He's a playmaker. Unfortunately,...
CATO JUNE Playing linebacker is completely different than playing safety. You're in the mix every play and tho...
CATO JUNE We were able to come back today. We showed a lot of character and stayed poised and didn't get down,...
CATO JUNE They took a long road to get there, and they made it happen. Troy and Joey, they're great playmakers...
CATO JUNE Reading the quarterback is a simple thing. You read the quarterback, the D-line gets great pressure ...
CATO JUNE It's his first start. We knew it was going to be a little rough on him. We knew he would give us opp...
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CATO JUNE If the market can predict the Fed's policy actions, then it must be the case that Fed policy follows...
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CATO INSTITUTE asset accumulation plays a vital role in escaping poverty.
CATO INSTITUTE blow to homeowners and small business people.
CATO INSTITUTE [Speaking at] Regulation in the Digital Age, ... the digital young are revolutionaries. Unlike the c...
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CATO INSTITUTE Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]
DIONYSIUS CATO We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO It's about going out there, no matter who you're playing. People try to put hype on it like they did...
CATO JUNE We were definitely shocked. We want to keep them to no points, and I don't care if it's the best off...
CATO JUNE Switching positions was probably the easiest thing for me to do. All I have to do is sit there in zo...
CATO JUNE That sounds pretty good for the time being. But you can't really think about that because we've got ...
CATO JUNE They didn't want (Smith) to hold it very long because Mathis and Freeney and those guys, they're com...
CATO JUNE When the opportunity came to make big plays, we made them.
CATO JUNE I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll m...
CATO JUNE The wise man does no wrong in changing his habits with the times
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MIYA CATO The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
PLINY THE ELDER There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv...
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest...
PLINY THE ELDER We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe...
PLINY THE ELDER Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them...
PLINY THE ELDER To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly...
PLINY THE ELDER The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, b...
PLINY THE ELDER Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDER Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in ...
PLINY THE ELDER To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flo...
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th...
PLINY THE ELDER The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first ti...
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
PLINY THE ELDER From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and i...
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess the...
PLINY THE ELDER Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cup...
PLINY THE ELDER Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as ...
PLINY THE ELDER During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted...
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry...
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading...
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its ow...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy lif...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Time discovered truth.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of ap...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradual...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who is brave is free.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compell...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than extern...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Where the fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)