As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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If you judge, investigate.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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