Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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After death there is nothing.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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