If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Men learn while they teach.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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