It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo govern was to serve, not to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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