Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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If you judge, investigate.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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