There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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