The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every journey has an end.
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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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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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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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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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