To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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