You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne hand washes the other.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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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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