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 YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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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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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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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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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