There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.