If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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