It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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