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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.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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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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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
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Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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