When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuch as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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