Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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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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Time discovers truth.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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