“He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.”
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.”
“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.”
“However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.”