A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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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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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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