It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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