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 YOUNGERUnjust dominion cannot be eternal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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