Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe sun shines even on the wicked.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve 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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Life without literary studies is death.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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