If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Every journey has an end.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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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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