The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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