A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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