Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca the YoungerVirtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Seneca the YoungerBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger