| Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| No man was ever wise by chance. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| 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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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| There is no great genius without some touch of madness. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. |
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- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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