The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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