A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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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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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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