Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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