It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Seneca the YoungerMisfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Seneca the YoungerPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
Seneca the Younger