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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Time discovers truth.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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