Dialogues and Letters
SenecaSözler ve Alıntılar
Life ceases just when we are getting ready for it.
On True and False Friendship
When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment. Those persons indeed put last first and confound their duties, who, violating the rules of Theophrastus judge a man after they have made him their friend, instead of making him their friend after they have judged him.
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
Only the most worthless of our possessions should come into the power of another.
No man has been shattered by the blows of Fortune unless he was first deceived by her favours.