Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo govern was to serve, not to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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After death there is nothing.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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 is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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