Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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His head was turned by too great success.
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