Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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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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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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