The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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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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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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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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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