230 Quotations by Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- 61. He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- 62. He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

- 63. He who is brave is free.

- 64. He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

- 65. He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

- 66. He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

- 67. I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

- 68. I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns ...

- 69. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

- 70. I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.

- 71. I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for ...

- 72. If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

- 73. If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

- 74. If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul ...

- 75. If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

- 76. If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

- 77. If you judge, investigate.

- 78. If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions ...

- 79. If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

- 80. If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

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