As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has great power should use it lightly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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