The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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If you judge, investigate.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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