As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBehold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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