All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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