So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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After death there is nothing.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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