Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGo on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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