Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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