If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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Just 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.
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He who is brave is free.
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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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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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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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