Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Every journey has an end.
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