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 YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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