"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 14 of 57)
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"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."
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"Misfortune is the test of a person's merit."
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"Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink."
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"Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently."
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"Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted."
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"You learn to know a pilot in a storm."
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"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power."
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"For greed, all nature is too little."
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"A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once."
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"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
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"Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them."
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"If you would judge, understand."
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"We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air."
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"Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open."
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"Abstinence is easier than temperance."
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"He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it."
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"Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth."
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"What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away."
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"Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her."
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