How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Time discovers truth.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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