You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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