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 YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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