We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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