Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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 who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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 vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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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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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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He who is brave is free.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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