A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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After death there is nothing.
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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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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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 mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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