Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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What 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?
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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