Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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