You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you judge, investigate.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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