We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Men learn while they teach.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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