Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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SenecaMoral Letters to Lucilius, Letter VII, tr. Richard Gummere
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius. (c. 4 BC-AD 65)
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- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII, tr. Richard Gummere
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- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter II, tr. Richard Gummere
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CIV
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