Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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