Share this page: Ignoranti, quem portam petat, nullus suus ventus est. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. -- Epistulae ad Lucillium, no. 71, sect. 3 Homines dum docent discunt. Even while they teach, men learn. -- Epistulae Morales, no. 7, sect. 8 Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insidious and insinuating something that elicets secrets from us just like love or liquor. -- Epistulae Morales Utrumque enum vitium est, et omnibus credere et nulli. It is equally unsound to trust everyone and to trust no one -- Epistulae, 3.4 Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful if one follows patterns. -- Epistulae, 6.5 (R. M. Gummere, tr.) Time heals what reason cannot. -- Agammemnon, line 130 Curae leves locuntur, ingentes stupent. Small sorrows speak, great ones are silent. -- Hippolytus, line 607 Ille mors gravis incubat Qui notus nimis omnibus Ignotus moritur sibi. One him does death lie heavily who, too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. -- Thyestes chorus (F. J. Miller, tr.) Share this page:

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