No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat 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?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “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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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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