Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Time discovers truth.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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