Quotes by Seneca

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. >>

One crime has to be concealed by another. >>

There is no delight in owning anything unshared. >>

Quotations about Invention and Inventor

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for s >>

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon tur >>

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. >>

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Seneca