Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne hand washes the other.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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