Whatever begins, also ends.
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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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Precepts 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.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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