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Hands Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
- It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
- A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,…
- One hand washes the other.
- The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not…
- 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…
- He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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