Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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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.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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