Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of 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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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