To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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