To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Men learn while they teach.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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