It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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