Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Every journey has an end.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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