They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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One hand washes the other.
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