He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Men learn while they teach.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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