The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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