Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife without literary studies is death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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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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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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