What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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His head was turned by too great success.
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