Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.