Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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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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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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