Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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