To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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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