Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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