Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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A 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.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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