Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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You talk one way, you live another.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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He worships God who knows him.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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After death there is nothing.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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As the world leads we follow.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.