Seneca the Younger Quotes About Language

• As was his language so was his life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thought Provoking, Silence, Language

• I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

  Seneca the Younger

  Communication, Language, Persons

• Men's language is as their lives.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Language

• Simple is the language of truth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Simple, Language

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Laughing, Return

• The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Language, Truth Is, Enough

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