"A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent."
Seneca the Younger
"Socrates was ennobled by the hemlock draught. Wrench from Cato's hand his sword, the vindicator of liberty, and you deprive him of the greatest share of his glory."
"Let another say. “Perhaps the worst will not happen.” You yourself must say. “Well, what if it does happen? Let us see who wins! Perhaps it happens for my best interests; it may be that such a death will shed credit upon my life.”"
"The best ideas are common property."
"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can Associate with those who will make a better man of you Welcome those whom you yourself can improve The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach"
"But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many because they are unlike you."
"Teaching by precept is a long road, but short and beneficial is the way by example."
"I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man."
"No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him."
"Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die."
"For love of bustle is not industry – it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind."
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
"Who is everywhere is nowhere"
"The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company."
"It is too late to be thrifty when the bottom has been reached."
"Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse."
"Tanta stultitia mortalium est. What fools these mortals be!"
"Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by."
"For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed"
"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?"
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