Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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 mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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