We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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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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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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One hand washes the other.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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