To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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