He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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But 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.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Every journey has an end.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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