The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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