Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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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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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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