The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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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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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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