Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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