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 YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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