He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Time discovers truth.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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