He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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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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