The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe 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!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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