Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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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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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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