Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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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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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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