We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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