Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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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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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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