When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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