It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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