Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca the YoungerNobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
Seneca the YoungerPrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the Younger