Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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