A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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