Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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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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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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