We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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