To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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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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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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