Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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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 expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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