Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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After death there is nothing.
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