The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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If you judge, investigate.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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