The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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