Seneca

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Whom they have injured they also hate. -Quos læserunt et oderunt

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

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

Man is a reasoning Animal.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers. -Praeceptores suos adulescens veneratur et suspicit

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.