Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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