Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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