Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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