Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has great power should use it lightly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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