We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Every journey has an end.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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