So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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