There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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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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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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