Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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