Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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