The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the stars through difficulties.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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