Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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