Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Precepts 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.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Every journey has an end.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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