The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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