He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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