To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Every journey has an end.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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