It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One hand washes the other.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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