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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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After death there is nothing.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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