We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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