Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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