When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Time discovers truth.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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