Men learn while they teach.
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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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