It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
Seneca the YoungerIt is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
Seneca the YoungerSuch is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Seneca the YoungerAnger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Seneca the Younger