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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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