To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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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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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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 intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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