Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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