Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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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 don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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