Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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