To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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