Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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