The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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