He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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