To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe world itself is too small for the covetous.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Time discovers truth.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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