Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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