We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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