To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBut when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Time discovers truth.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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