Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Did you really think I would sell you out?

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

I've never cheated on a woman.

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

As of right now, I have two votes, mine and Jimmy's. I'm sure of Jimmy because he said he is gonna vote for me and Jimmy never tells a lie.

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.

If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.