The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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