So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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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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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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