The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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