No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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