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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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