A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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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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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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