I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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