Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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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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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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