A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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