The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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His head was turned by too great success.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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