How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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