A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Quote by Seneca

Topics: Liberty Quotes

While we teach, we learn.

While we teach, we learn.

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination...

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination...

Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die.

Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die.

Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel:...

Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel:...

For greed, all nature is too little.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

Nothing is ours except time.

Nothing is ours except time.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are...

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are...

No man was ever wise by chance.

No man was ever wise by chance.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today?...

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today?...

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when...

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when...

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of...

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of...

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man...

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man...