To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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