Quote

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca the Younger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
Speak
Favours
Rendered
Favour
Services
Received
Silent

More quotes by Seneca the Younger

Image
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger
Image
... frugality makes a poor man rich.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
Seneca the Younger
Image
To rule yourself is the ultimate power
Seneca the Younger
Image
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others the right way to gather is to scatter.
Seneca the Younger
Image
There exists no more difficult art than living.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
Seneca the Younger
Image
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 the Younger
Image
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Seneca the Younger