He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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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One hand washes the other.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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