There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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